Bayonets and Butterflies

Film Screenings

Sat 24 Apr 2021 – Mon 26 Apr 2021

10:00am – 4:00pm

WA Maritime Museum

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Join us for a moving and exquisite film about the Great War and a small triumph of preservation for the natural sciences.

Filmmaker Sam Hobbs, great-grandson of Lieutenant General Sir Joseph Talbot Hobbs, in partnership with the Western Australian Museum, has created a documentary film telling a poignant true story. The film reveals how on the eve of the Villers-Bretonneux offensive in 1918, under the command of Lieutenant General Sir Joseph Talbot Hobbs and Major General Harold Edward "Pompey" Elliott, Australian troops rescued French Lepidopterist Eugene Boullet's priceless collection of butterflies.

These specimens now form the basis of Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris' butterfly collection.

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Date: 24, 25 and 26 April 2021

Times: Screening hourly between:

10am – 4pm (Saturday 24 April and Monday 26 April)

1pm – 4pm (ANZAC Day Sunday 25 April)*

Location: WA Maritime Museum

Cost: Free event. Adult entry fees apply to visit the WA Maritime Museum galleries.

No bookings required.

This free event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival 2021.

 

_{*The WA Maritime Museum will be open 1pm – 5pm on ANZAC Day.}

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