The Museum
of Rumour is both an internet work and a site specific installation.
In December 2003 the Museum was installed in several unused storage
rooms at Sydney College of the Arts.
This building had previously been the site of Callan
Park, an asylum for the insane. Over the years, as with many old
buildings, there have been constant reports of strange sounds and odd
sightings. The buildings seem full of unheard rumours, sighs and noises.
The museum
was 'installed' in what today is the auditorium but was once the dining
rooms for the inmates of the aslyum. On arrival visitors were given
the 'chladni-audiometer'
and a map to help them navigate around the rumour sites. Six rumour
sites were carefully chosen. The rooms were left as found except for
the museum signage placed at each rumour site. Visitors moved from site
to site and could hear the rumours through their audiometers.