June 20 is World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It celebrates the strength an...
Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2020
June 20 is World Refugee Day, an international day designated by the United Nations to honour refugees around the globe. It celebrates the strength an...
Posted on Tuesday 29 March 2022
Museum Closed this weekend! We are undertaking some major works at the Migration Museum and due to mechanical and electrical work required in our gall...
Posted on Monday 10 May 2021
The nineteenth century galleries at the Migration Museum are closing temporarily from Tuesday 11 May until mid – late 2022. Other galleries in t...
Posted on Friday 15 January 2021
“You make a choice: it is better for me to die walking or die standing still?” In the 1990s, the first group of refugees from the Horn of Africa r...
Posted on Wednesday 28 February 2018
28 February 2018 Here at the Migration Museum, we pride ourselves on offering a space in which locals and visitors alike can learn about South Austral...
Posted on Friday 31 March 2017
Written By Corrine Ball | 31 March 2017 Australia’s first state secondary school for girls, the Advanced School for Girls in Adelaide, was estab...
Posted on Friday 24 March 2017
Written By Catherine Manning | 24 March 2017 The Migration Museum in Adelaide is something of a hidden gem tucked behind the State Library on Kintore ...
Posted on Friday 17 February 2017
By Corrine Ball | 17 February 2017 In 1881, Adelaide became the first Australian capital city to be connected to a water-borne sewerage system. By 187...
Posted on Friday 13 January 2017
Written By Nikki Sullivan | 13 January 2017 Between 1880 and 1891 the hulk Fitzjames, colloquially known as ‘hell afloat’, served as a Reformatory...
Posted on Tuesday 20 September 2016
Written by Corinne Ball | September 20th, 2016 In 1983, before the Migration Museum opened, an archaeological dig was undertaken on the Kintore Aven...