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HOLIDAY FUN: Chatterboxes galore!

Posted on Monday 16 March 2020

Join us at the Migration Museum to make a paper origami ‘chatterbox’. Young visitors will receive a pre-made chatterbox from the front of house ...

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HOLIDAY FUN: Chatterbox

Posted on Friday 29 March 2019

Join us at the Migration Museum to make a paper origami ‘chatterbox’. Children will fold and shape their own chatterbox with help from museum guid...

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HOLIDAY FUN: History Mystery

Posted on Friday 29 March 2019

Someone or something has been lost in the halls of the Migration Museum! Join  us during the holidays to help solve the puzzle of the lost museum ite...

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My Paintings Speak for Me: painting workshops with artist Kunyi McInerney

Posted on Thursday 31 May 2018

WORKSHOP PLACES AVAILABLE on Friday 13 July On Monday 9 July, Wednesday 11 July and Friday 13 July in the first week of the school holidays, Aborigina...

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82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide

Daily 10am — 5pm
Closed Christmas Day

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  • ‘My brother ran from England to Canada, where he became a Canadian and had a good life. I did not run from the UK initially, until I realized that my own family could not have the life my wife and I wished for them. So, a running from, and a running to, commenced. The painting does not show the joy of arriving in Australia. It deals only with the need to depart from the past.’ – Ian Henderson, 2010. The artist Ian Henderson depicts in his painting ‘Boys running – Cheltenham’ his and his brothers departure from home in Cheltenham, UK. Their mother waves goodbye from a house in the background. Ian and his family migrated to Adelaide in 1972. Oil painting, HT 2011.0021 #MigrantStories #MigrationMuseumCollection
  • ‘Cassette tapes evoke a nostalgic feeling in me. They are from a time before mobile phones and Spotify. I remember sitting next to my Hi-Fi tower on a Friday afternoon when the radio played the Top 20 songs of the week. My finger hovered over the pause button of my cassette tape recorder ready to release it not to miss recording the start of the next song. It was super annoying when the radio jokey kept talking into the songs.' Curator Birgit. This cassette from our collection is a mix-tape of Yugoslav music. It belonged to a member of the tamburaski orchestra Obilic. Members of this music group arrived in Australia from former Yugoslavia in the late 1940s, and began playing together at public events and on radio and television from the 1950s until the 1980s. HT 2009.0070, cassette tape #MusicMonday #MigrationMuseumCollection
  • This is how the objects from the 'British Migrants: Instant Australians?' exhibition travelled from Melbourne to Adelaide earlier this year. Together with a digital storyline they give us insights into personal migrant experiences. Come and visit us to have a closer look and discover the stories behind the objects. #BehindTheScenes #MigrantStories
  • This diary was written by Peggy Bass during her migration to Australia from the UK in 1954. The family travelled on the 'Otranto' over the Christmas period. Peggy notes for the 24 December: ‘Christmas Eve and the weather very warm. Quite unnatural. Now in the first half of the Suez….The children have just realised its Xmas Eve and are beginning to get excited. Fred and I went down to the baggage room and got their Christmas presents out and hid them in a suitcase.’ What are your migration memories? Diary, HT 2019.0099 #MigrationMuseumCollection #MigrantStories

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