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Migration Museum

Programs for schools

Time for a natter?

Special program: 27 April – 3 July 2020 (Term 2 only) 90 minute program – $7.00 per student Bookings essential, please call: 8207 7580. Ex...

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POETRY TAKEOVER 2020

Young poets: get ready to takeover! Throughout May 2020, South Australian students in years 4 to 11 are invited to participate in the History Trustâ€...

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Instant Australians and the Making of a Nation

Arthur Caldwell stated that for every non Briton – 10 Britons will be supported to migrate to Australia. How did this happen? Who was encouraged to ...

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Daring to be Different meets Centre of Democracy

What a difference a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, Queer person makes! This exhibition at the Migration Museum highlights the lives and achi...

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If walls could speak: Movement of Peoples: Australia 1750 – 1918

What were the changing features of the movements of people from 1750-1918? This Australian Curriculum linked program will investigate the history of A...

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Making of Democracy

Making of Democracy:  joint program with the Centre of Democracy. Who were the key players in establishing the democratic system we have in place tod...

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Colonial Footprints on Kaurna Land

Why did the SA government company decide to site Adelaide where it currently is? What tools and instruments were used to plan out the site? What do yo...

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Overview: Contemporary migration to South Australia post 1945

Who is migrating to South Australia right now? Where are migrants coming from, and why? How is migration experienced? How does government policy shape...

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Cawthorne Sketch 1843

Changing worlds: Childrens’ experiences of Colonisation

The program hits the curriculum links of First Contacts (life for Indigenous Australians pre- and post-contact) and asks the following Inquiry Questio...

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

Overview: Australia’s colonization, migration and democracy in the 1800s

The Inquiry question that will be addressed is: How have individuals and groups in the past and present contributed to the development of Australia? T...

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Peg Dolls

A day in the life of a child in the 19th century

In this joint program between the Migration Museum and Ayers House, students will explore daily life for children in the 19th Century. Migration Museu...

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Unpacking Histories

How are social histories put together? What stories can objects and documents tell? An investigative multimedia assisted workshop that aims to show ho...

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Being a child in the 19th century

In this fun education program students explore the past focusing on school life and daily life of colonial Australia before schooling became compulsor...

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Overview: Movement of Peoples 1750-1901

Overview: Movement of Peoples 1750-1901

Focussing on people’s lives and using the galleries, this Museum Officer led education program will provide a study of the modern world 1750-1901. U...

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Statue of family migrating to Australia

Overview: Australia as a Nation

What were the changing features of the movements of people from 1750-1918? This Australian Curriculum linked program will investigate the history of A...

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Immigration Overview (tailored)

Explore the early immigration days…. This flexible Australian Curriculum informed program provides students with an overview of the immigration ...

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82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide

Daily 10am — 5pm
Closed Christmas Day

What’s happening at the @migration_museum

  • Is this the cutest Unboxing the Museum video? #UnboxingTheMuseum #MigrationMuseumCollection
  • To begin National Reconciliation Week we want to acknowledge that our museum exists on Kaurna Yerta. Although we live and work on this land together we acknowledge that our experiences of this place have been and continue to be vastly different. #NRW2020 #InThisTogether2020
  • ‘This recipe was a little challenge! I was intrigued by the recipe written in pencil on the back of egg - ration cards from Austria in 1947. This item is part of a collection of documents relating to the immigration of Maria and Wenzel Walla and their four children to Australia from the refugee camp Hellbrunn in Salzburg, Austria, in 1955. It was really hard to read the old German handwriting which also includes shorthand. I worked it out with a little help of my dad. It’s a recipe for Spritzgebaeck – German shortbread biscuits. I remember my grandma making these for Christmas. Mine don’t look like Spritzgebaeck at all, as I didn’t have a cookie press or piping bag to squeeze them into the right shape. They still tasted great with a cup of tea on a grey Sunday afternoon.’ – Birgit, Curator Object: Ration coupons, 1994.0113. #MondayYumDay #MigrationMuseumCollection
  • For National Archaeology Week, we dug out this single gold earring from our State History collection. It was found during an archaeological excavation of Queen's Theatre, Gilles Arcade, in 1989. The Queen's Theatre is the oldest surviving theatre building in mainland Australia and was constructed in 1840 by the brothers Vaiben and Emanuel Solomon. However, the theatre was not very successful and closed its doors a year later. Since then, the building has had many different uses and has again been used as a performance space since 1996. How is the earring connected to the early theatre times? Was it worn by a person from the audience or was it used as a theatre prop? More info about Queen’s Theatre: http://ow.ly/Gr6850zN9VR #2020NAW #MigrationMuseumCollection Earring, HT 2004.0977

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