The entrance hall to the National Museum of Australia has been transformed, filled with some of the largest objects in the collection.
Many have never been on public display because of their size, and so for the first time the public will be able to see and learn the stories behind objects like Steam engines, horse drawn carriages and a travelling wagon.
But this has been no ordinary exhibition to set up, at times it has resembled something out of the Ben Stiller movie "Night at the Museum".
Curator Jennifer Wilson explains that a lot of the work had to be done after hours.
"It's a lot of very careful work; we don't want to do that during hours so that everything is very safe and easier to manage, and so we are moving our large objects at night."
The stories that seep out of the leather of the cars and the metal of the planes are just as impressive as the objects themselves which now fill the hall.
The very first car to drive around Australia wasn't a fancy 4WD but rather a small bright yellow Citroen.
"Neville Westwood lived in Perth, he was a missionary, and he decided in 1925 after purchasing this Little Citroen, that he would drive through WA's missions," Jennifer Wilson says.
"He took off on a journey across Western Australia, which turned into a journey across the Northern Territory, which turned into a journey around Australia."
The Citron took quite a beating however, especially the tyres.
"What they had to do for patch jobs, they got cow hide, they stuffed the tyres with grass, and they just had to make do with whatever they could find," Jennifer laughs.
Neville Westwood also had to rely on the kindness of the local Indigenous people, who helped pull the car through dry creek beds on the Fitzroy River.
The large objects, each with a fascinating story, will be on show for some time.
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