The Destitute Asylum housed Adelaide’s poor from 1850-1918, but most of it was demolished before 1950. The Migration Museum occupies the last surviv...

Join us for a museum tour with a difference as we explore our heritage buildings by candlelight, and learn about life and death in the early days of t...

Join us for a museum tour with a difference as we explore our heritage buildings by candlelight, and learn about life and death in the early days of t...

Greetings from… an exhibition at the Migration Museum, celebrates the power of souvenirs, from the poignant to the marvelously kitsch and eccentric...

During HISTORY FESTIVAL 2018 the Migration Museum is pleased to offer tours in languages other than English: The Migration Museum in Italian Saturday ...

Between 1880 and 1909, 1678 babies were born in the Adelaide Destitute Asylum’s Lying-in Home. Their mothers were poor, alone, desperate. In this sp...

We have created the Historium, a space to explore new thinking about South Australian history. What are you interested in? What would you like to tell...