Past Events and Exhibitions | Migration Museum

Who Was Mabel Worley? Uncovering a Destitute Asylum Story

27 August 2023

Family Pick

MIGRATION MUSEUM JULY LEGO® TRAIL!

24 June - 23 July 2023

Holiday Pick

Creative Characters Mask Workshop

13 - 20 July 2023

A Taste From The African Kitchen

24 June 2023

Refugee Week 2023

18 - 24 June 2023

Preston’s Historic Punch and Judy Show

28 May 2023

Aromatic Hospitality: Palestinian Sweet Yansuniyye and Yemeni Bakhur

21 May 2023

Traditional Arabic Board Games to Entertain Your Guests

21 May 2023

Remembering the Destitute Asylum Babies

14 May 2023

Discover Adelaide’s Destitute Asylum Walking Tours

07 May 2023

Family Pick

Migration Museum – LEGO® Trail

07 - 30 April 2023

Family Pick

LEGO ANIMATION WORKSHOP

21 - 22 April 2023

Children workshop: Make a mosaic coaster or suncatcher

16 April 2023

Workshop: Experience Lebanese childbirth hospitality

16 April 2023

Workshop: Arabic Word Art

26 March 2023

Family Pick

Block Party – LEGO® Trail

17 December 2022 - 29 January 2023

Family Pick

GooRoo Animation: Whiteboard Animation

09 - 15 January 2023

Commedia dell’Arte

18 November 2022

Objects tell our stories: Hospitality in Arabic culture

05 August - 04 November 2022

School Holidays: New Kid on the Block LEGO® Trail

01 - 16 October 2022

School Holidays: GooRoo Animation

06 - 09 October 2022

‘Why Football?’ Lunchtime talk

05 October 2022

South Australia’s History Festival – Discovering the Destitute Asylum Walking Tour

29 May 2022

South Australia’s History Festival – Cast in Concrete: Italian Migrants and South Australia’s Building Industry

21 May 2022

Free Weekend Tours

01 May 2017 - 31 December 2021

Join us for the AUTWA East Turkistan Republic Day cultural event!

13 November 2021

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Chatterboxes!

25 September - 10 October 2021

Holiday Pick

School Holidays: Illuminate Adelaide – Animate Yourself workshop

16 - 18 July 2021

NAIDOC Week: A Walking tour of Kirrawirraparri, the River Torrens

08 July 2021

History Festival : Discovering the Destitute Asylum Walking Tour

30 May 2021

detail, Light's Plan, setting out the settlement of Adelaide, 1837

History Festival : Rethinking the Adelaide Plan

24 May 2021

History Festival : The ALA Presents the History of the Lebanese Community in South Australia

22 - 23 May 2021

History Festival : Remembering Loveday Internment Camp – Barmera

16 May 2021

History Festival : Auslan Interpreted Tours of Migration Museum

15 May 2021

History Festival : Remembering Loveday Internment Camp – Adelaide

13 May 2021

Deaf-led (Auslan) tours of ‘Expressing ourselves: being Deaf in SA’

06 - 07 February 2021

Family Pick

Kids try Auslan!

13 - 19 January 2021

Holiday Pick

School Holiday Scavenger Hunt

26 September - 11 October 2020

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Migration Museum Magical MISERY Tour

18 December 2019 - 22 January 2020

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Weaving workshop with Aunty Janice

21 January 2020

The Migration Museum – Italian Style

21 February - 21 November 2019

Special Event: Banga Ngara (make and reflect)

20 October 2019

Special event: Sovereign Acts: In The Wake

19 October 2019

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: History Mystery

28 September - 13 October 2019

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Chatterbox

28 September - 13 October 2019

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Star Jars & Milky Way Maps

01 - 11 October 2019

Family Pick

Safe Harbour at the Migration Museum

07 - 08 September 2019

artwork of black thongs and black necklace made from parts of the thongs

The Art of Welcome

15 August 2019

A Delve into the Destitute – workshop with Writers SA

21 July 2019

Family Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Souvenir shrinkies & brilliant badges

09 - 19 July 2019

Curator's Pick

Life, death, blood and guts! A hideous history of Adelaide

19 July 2019

Curator's Pick

Life, death, blood and guts! A hideous history of Adelaide

19 July 2019

Me standing here with no souvenirs / The bright side of conquest

18 July 2019

EVENT CANCELLED – Upcycling souvenirs: Make your own beeswax wraps

12 July 2019

Connecting Hearts: what next?

23 June 2019

Family Pick

REFUGEE WEEK: Journeys: Your story, My Story, Our Story

22 June 2019

South Seas souveniring

20 June 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL: Daring to be Different event

30 May 2019

Family Pick

DREAM BIG FAMILY WEEKEND & SORRY DAY WEAVING WORKSHOPS

25 - 26 May 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL – tours at the Migration Museum

28 April - 19 May 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL – Language tours at the Migration Museum

01 - 19 May 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL – workshops at the Migration Museum

01 - 19 May 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL – Community forums at the Migration Museum

01 - 19 May 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL: Cultural events at the Migration Museum

26 April - 19 May 2019

The Collectors

18 April 2019

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: In your dreams … make a Snow Dome

15 - 18 April 2019

Connecting Hearts

24 March - 14 April 2019

Connecting Hearts at Adelaide Botanic Garden

13 - 14 April 2019

Connecting Hearts display

11 April 2019

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: History Mystery

15 December 2018 - 25 January 2019

The 57th Australian Latvian Arts Festival Exhibition: From Riga to Adelaide

27 - 30 December 2018

Family Pick

ON THE TERRACE 2018

25 November 2018

Muriel Van Der Byl – in celebration

27 October - 04 November 2018

Family Pick

HOLIDAY PROGRAM: Departure, Transit, Arrival: stories by Joanna Majchrowska

29 September - 14 October 2018

Family Pick

HOLIDAY PROGRAM: Belongings, an interactive installation

29 September - 14 October 2018

Coming Soon

Captured Lives: Loveday during the Second World War

03 October 2018

Family Pick

Your State – Your History

31 August - 09 September 2018

Coming Soon

Growing up Croatian in Australia: Why Memoirs Matter

04 August 2018

Holiday Pick

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

09 - 13 July 2018

The Travelling Table

07 - 10 June 2018

Final Week

HISTORY FESTIVAL 2018 – Language Tours

28 April - 31 May 2018

Final Week

HISTORY FESTIVAL 2018: Croatians in South Australia – talks & tours

27 April - 31 May 2018

Curator's Pick

Souvenir Roadshow

27 May 2018

Curator's Pick

SORRY DAY: My Paintings Speak for Me – in conversation with the artist

26 May 2018

Gladys and Gordon Sym Choon lead a group of eight, promoting the Sym Choon shops

HISTORY FESTIVAL 2018: Sym Choon – talks & tours

27 April - 23 May 2018

Coming Soon

Speaking Their Names: The Babies of the Destitute Asylum

19 May 2018

Coming Soon

International Museum Day 18 May 2018

18 May 2018

Coming Soon

HISTORY FESTIVAL 2018: Showcasing Palestinian Culture

06 May 2018

Family Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Tapestry your way to Croatia

16 - 29 April 2018

Coming Soon

‘Our Shared Table’ Exhibition and Harmony Day Food Gala

25 March 2018

Curator's Pick

Adelaide Fringe at the Migration Museum

15 February - 18 March 2018

Final Week

BlackBlue

23 February - 09 March 2018

Family Pick

HOLIDAY FUN – Migration Matters

11 December 2017 - 29 January 2018

Family Pick

HOLIDAY FUN – Making Terrazzo Paper

11 December 2017 - 28 January 2018

Final Week

On the Terrace

12 November 2017

Family Pick

School holiday activity: flag making

30 September - 15 October 2017

Family Pick

Community History Once Upon a Time stories of South Australian Childhood Exhibition Circa 1909

School holiday activity: Revolting Girls and Rotting Boys

04 - 11 October 2017

Holiday Pick

Australian of the Year Booklet Activity