Past Events and Exhibitions | Migration Museum

Family Pick

History Festival – Playtime in the Nineteenth Century

03 - 16 May 2026

History Festival – Mothers & Babies of the Destitute Asylum

10 May 2026

Holiday Pick

LEGO® Trail – Threads of Culture

03 - 26 April 2026

Adelaide Fringe: The Cells at The Courtyard of Curiosities

19 February - 22 March 2026

Adelaide Fringe: The Chapel at The Courtyard of Curiosities

19 February - 22 March 2026

Adelaide Fringe: The Yurt at The Courtyard of Curiosities

19 February - 22 March 2026

Adelaide Fringe: The Gallery at The Courtyard of Curiosities

19 February - 22 March 2026

Adelaide Fringe: The List Festival Party

23 February 2026

Curator's Pick

About Face Exhibition

26 July 2025 - 10 February 2026

Holiday Pick

LEGO® Trail – Celebrating South Australia

13 December 2025 - 26 January 2026

Holiday Pick

School Holidays: Animation Workshop

09 - 22 January 2026

Free Guided Weekend Tours

01 January - 31 December 2025

Guided Museum Group Tour

01 January 2024 - 31 December 2025

75 Years of the Croatian Club Adelaide

12 June - 31 December 2025

Immigr-Action – In Conversation

06 - 13 December 2025

Of Hope and Dreams – Di Sogni e di Speranza

15 November 2025

Queer Archive Roadshow

09 November 2025

On The Terrace

02 November 2025

Births, Burials and Bodysnatching Tour

31 October 2025

Holiday Pick

LEGO® Trail – Around the World

20 September - 12 October 2025

Holiday Pick

School Holidays: Animation Workshop

29 September - 10 October 2025

Holiday Pick

LEGO® Trail – Our Changing City

28 June - 20 July 2025

Holiday Pick

‘Our Changing City’ Holiday Activity

28 June - 20 July 2025

Refugee Week – Finding Freedom: Diversity in Community

15 - 21 June 2025

Free Teacher's Pick

Dream Big Festival

07 - 16 May 2025

History Festival – Desert Voices: Cameleer Descendants Share Their ‘Afghan’ Outback Stories

03 May 2025

Holiday Pick

LEGO® Trail – Participation!

05 - 27 April 2025

Adelaide Fringe : Courtyard of Curiosities

20 February - 23 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: The Chapel at The Courtyard of Curiosities

20 February - 23 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: The Yurt at The Courtyard of Curiosities

20 February - 23 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: The Gallery at The Courtyard of Curiosities

20 February - 23 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: The Cells at The Courtyard of Curiosities

20 February - 23 March 2025

Curator's Pick

Adelaide Fringe : Curator’s Tour

21 March 2025

Adelaide Fringe: The List Festival Party

24 February 2025

Curator's Pick

Maa Minu Südames – Land of my heart: Estonians in Adelaide 

30 November 2024 - 09 February 2025

Holiday Pick

LEGO Trail – Celebrations

14 December 2024 - 27 January 2025

Holiday Pick

Paper Weaving Workshops

07 - 17 January 2025

A Tapestry of Cultures

08 December 2024

Tra Due Mondi – Between Two Worlds

09 November 2024

On the Terrace 2024

03 November 2024

Coming Soon

Halloween Tour: Births, Burials and Bodysnatching

31 October 2024

LEGO Trail

28 September - 13 October 2024

Nature Festival – Spring Light: Lantern making workshops

05 - 10 October 2024

Family Pick

Migration Museum LEGO® Trail

06 - 21 July 2024

Family Pick

My Favourite Place – 3D Collage Workshop

10 - 18 July 2024

Curator's Pick

The Lucky Ones – Stories of Australian Refugee Journeys: Author Talk

19 May 2024

Family Pick

LEGO Trail at Migration Museum

13 - 28 April 2024

Holiday Pick

Earth Day Mobile Sculptures

19 - 22 April 2024

Family Pick

Turkish Cultural Festival

Family Pick

Summer LEGO® Trail

16 December 2023 - 28 January 2024

Family Pick

Wearable Art Workshop

12 January 2024

A Night at the Migration Museum: Spain and Flamenco

01 December 2023

Australian of the Year Exhibition

08 September - 20 November 2023

On The Terrace

19 November 2023

Family Pick

Migration Museum LEGO® Trail

16 September - 15 October 2023

Holiday Pick

Creative Painting on Ceramics Workshop

06 - 12 October 2023

Australia’s Local Hero Amar Singh

11 October 2023

Commedia dell’Arte: A Travelling Theatre Across Time and Place

12 November 2022 - 31 August 2023

Who Was Mabel Worley? Uncovering a Destitute Asylum Story

27 August 2023

Ahlan Wa Sahlan (Welcome): Hospitality in Arabic culture

04 February - 31 July 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

MIGRATION MUSUEM 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

Curator's Pick

Handmade – Afghan Women Traditional Arts and Crafts

23 July 2022 - 26 February 2023

Pilgrim: A Japanese-Australian Art Odyssey

06 August 2022 - 29 January 2023

Hanging by a Thread – Mosaic for Afghan women

21 September 2022 - 29 January 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

Family Pick

Our Footy, Our People, Our Stories – A SANFL History Exhibition

24 June - 06 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

Final Week

Karangalan Philippine Arts: Honouring Self

12 April - 28 July 2022

Curator's Pick

Missing Voices: Untold Stories of Australian Muslims

05 February - 29 May 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

Family Pick

Crafting Memories

28 January - 30 March 2022

Animating Country: Nora Abbott, Rhonda Sharpe, Doris Thomas, Joanne Wheeler

15 October 2021 - 30 January 2022

Final Week

Instants and Places of the Italian Front

26 November 2021 - 26 January 2022

Free Weekend Tours

01 May 2017 - 31 December 2021

Inferno 5

22 October - 21 November 2021

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

13 November 2021

Curator's Pick

RE/CLAIMING COUNTRY

10 July - 17 October 2021

Holiday Pick

HOLIDAY FUN: Chatterboxes!

25 September - 10 October 2021

SALA Festival

Belonging – Photography by Ekaterina Shipova Bell

05 August - 10 October 2021

Final Week

Illuminate Adelaide : Being Different Together

16 July - 01 August 2021

Family Pick

Expressing Ourselves: Being Deaf in South Australia

20 September 2020 - 31 July 2021

Holiday Pick

School Holidays: Illuminate Adelaide – Animate Yourself workshop

16 - 18 July 2021

LivingProof – a collaboration between Bene Aged Care, writer Rosa Matto and photographer Italo Vardaro

06 March - 11 July 2021

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

08 July 2021

OutBlak Adventures : Still Moving – Celebrating Indigenous LGBTI communities

01 May - 06 July 2021

History Festival : Discovering the Destitute Asylum Walking Tour

30 May 2021

History Festival : New Land New Hope at MCCSA

13 - 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

LOOKING BACK LOOKING FORWARD: Community banners from the Migration Museum collection

19 March - 27 April 2021

New Land, New Hope: Commemorating thirty years of settlement by refugees from the Horn of Africa

23 December 2020 - 14 March 2021

Tangitja etlarintja ekarlta – Working together with strong thoughts

18 December 2020 - 28 February 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

Curator's Pick

British Migrants: Instant Australians?

22 February - 06 December 2020

Holiday Pick

School Holiday Scavenger Hunt

26 September - 11 October 2020

Curator's Pick

Connecting Hearts: who belongs?

21 December 2019 - 31 August 2020

TARNANTHI: Sovereign Acts: In the Wake

18 October 2019 - 27 January 2020

TARNANTHI: Grandmother Lore

18 October 2019 - 27 January 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

Daring to be Different

01 May - 17 December 2019

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

Final Week

A man walks past a large mural that depicts metalwork in a car workshop

Portraits of Elizabeth: migration, community, identity

01 August - 02 October 2019

Final Week

a large round necklace made of tiny shells

Island Welcome

03 August - 29 September 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

SALA Festival

a man holding an Australian flag out of a car window

Artist talk – Portraits of Elizabeth

10 August 2019

Curator's Pick

Greetings from… the power of souvenirs

12 November 2018 - 28 July 2019

Australien Future: tales of migration

08 June - 28 July 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

In Our Own Voices: stories of Journey and Resettlement from the Middle East to Australia

01 February - 02 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 – workshops at the Migration Museum

01 - 19 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 – Community forums at the Migration Museum

01 - 19 May 2019

HISTORY FESTIVAL: Cultural events at the Migration Museum

26 April - 19 May 2019

School of Hope: Cisarua Refugee Learning Centre, Indonesia

20 October 2018 - 28 April 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

FEAST Festival 2018: SENTINEL

10 November - 21 December 2018

Family Pick

ON THE TERRACE 2018

25 November 2018

Pop-up Exhibition: Muriel Van Der Byl – in celebration

27 October - 04 November 2018

Muriel Van Der Byl – in celebration

27 October - 04 November 2018

SALA FESTIVAL: Departure, Transit, Arrival: stories by Joanna Majchrowska

04 August - 31 October 2018

Curator's Pick

BELONGINGS: an interactive installation

28 September - 21 October 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

Final Week

Croatians in South Australia: Community and Identity since 1945

23 March - 30 September 2018

Family Pick

Your State – Your History

31 August - 09 September 2018

SALA Festival

SALA FESTIVAL – Six Months: works by Simone Kennedy

01 - 31 August 2018

Coming Soon

Growing up Croatian in Australia: Why Memoirs Matter

04 August 2018

Curator's Pick

My Paintings Speak for Me: Kunyi June Anne McInerney in the Oodnadatta (Duntjiba) Children’s Home

28 April - 29 July 2018

Curator's Pick

Sym Choon: Changing Fortunes in White Australia

30 January - 22 July 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

Curator's Pick

HISTORIUM

11 December 2017 - 28 February 2018

Final Week

1976: the Italian Festival is Born

03 September 2017 - 25 February 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

GALs Revisited

06 - 30 November 2017

Barangaroo Ngangamay

13 October - 26 November 2017

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

Final Week

Macau Days

23 September - 08 October 2017

Family Pick

SALA Festival: Colour my World

12 August - 24 September 2017

Final Week

Image: Gallery with large photos of people

Changing Places: migration now

27 May - 17 September 2017

Final Week

Planting dreams in a new land

31 March - 27 August 2017

Holiday Pick

Australian of the Year Booklet Activity