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Migration Museum

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 8 8207 7580

Address: 82 Kintore Ave 5000 Adelaide, SA, Australia

Website: http://migration.historysa.com.au

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24.01.2022 *Please note the Migration Museum will be open from Sunday 22 November. See our latest post for more info* We’ll be closing our doors from this afternoon in accordance with SA Government regulations for a 6-day lock down. For more info >> https://history.sa.gov.au/blog/covid-19-temporary-closure/ We’re confident that together we can get on top of this and re-open soon. ... Please stay safe everyone.

22.01.2022 Today is International Day of People With Disabilities, when we celebrate the contributions and achievements of people with disability. Why not visit 'Expressing ourselves', our current Deaf exhibition, and learn about Deaf community and culture in SA. (Thanks also to Adelaide artist Oliver Mills, who designed the artwork used on this year's pin) https://www.idpwd.com.au/olivers-brush-with-creativity-2/

22.01.2022 Celebrate International Museum Day with us! This year's theme is 'The future of Museums: recover and reimagine'. Discover our collection objects on our new online portal: https://collections.history.sa.gov.au/ #IMD2021 #InternationalMuseumDay #InternationalMuseumDay2021 #MigrationMuseums

22.01.2022 The Migration Museum documents people’s experiences of migration and celebrates cultural diversity in South Australia since its opening in 1986. The closing of Australia’s international borders as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic has had a major impact on migration. The Australian government expects its first net negative migration since 1946. Mandy Paul, Director of the Migration Museum, had a closer look at the current situation. Read her article on Medium: https://medium.com//global-crises-and-migration-from-the-s #MigrationMuseums Image: Opening of the Migration Museum, 1986.

22.01.2022 NATIONAL SORRY DAY On National Sorry Day we acknowledge and remember the pain and suffering of the Stolen Generations. #NRW2021

21.01.2022 Did you know that over 19,000 South Australians speak Vietnamese? Interestingly, Vietnamese is a tonal language. This means that the tone used to pronounce a word can drastically alter its meaning. Many Vietnamese people came to Australia as refugees during the late 1970s, following the Fall of Saigon. This had a major impact on Australia’s immigration policy. Australia’s first Humanitarian Program designed to deal with refugee and humanitarian issues was established by the ...Fraser Government in 1977. The First boat people refugees had arrived in Darwin in 1976. This model boat was gifted to Ms Rose Ashton, a school teacher at Pennington Primary School by Vietnamese refugees who had arrived in Adelaide in 1982 and attended an Indo-Chinese parent group at Pennington Primary School. The model is a replica of the boat that they came to Australia on. Have a closer look at the object on our new online collections page: https://collections.history.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/38233 #ManyLanguagesofSA #MigrationMuseums

19.01.2022 We're very excited that our lovely 1841 sampler book by Letitia Brown (kindly donated by her relative Mr Goldney in the 1990s) will be on public display in the new The David Roche Collection at TDRF Adelaide exhibition shortly! The book was given the once over by Artlab Australia to make sure its delicate pages are safe and stable.

16.01.2022 As we listen to the bugle call from the #RemembranceDay ceremony on North Terrace this morning, we reflect on the significant contribution of Indigenous servicemen and women.#NAIDOCatMM #NAIDOC2020

15.01.2022 *Please note the Museum is now closed as a result of the updated restrictions enforced on 18 November. See our pinned post for more information.* The Migration Museum, along with the History Trust’s museums including the National Motor Museum - Australia and the South Australian Maritime Museum remains open with changes to our capacity limits to keep our teams and visitors safe. School visits and public events due to be held over the next two weeks until 29 November are canc...elled. Our education and event teams are speaking with impacted groups to make alternative arrangements. What’s changed: 1 person for every 4 square metres in our galleries and spaces Some school visits over the next two weeks will be affected What’s not changed: The health and safety of our teams, visitors and volunteer remain our priority The Migration Museum is still open daily with reduced capacity limits We remain COVIDSafe with ongoing regular cleaning, sanitation stations for visitors, physical distancing guidelines and contact tracing in place What you can do to help: Always practice good hygiene and physical distancing Stay at home unless you need to travel Jump online to explore our museums, collections and programs! Keep up to date at History.sa.gov.au/covid-19-information-and-updates

14.01.2022 European explorers used surveying instruments to traverse and map this continent. These objects have been used to tell the stories of explorers discovering untouched land, but can we really say that the land was unknown when First Nations people were already here? This week is NAIDOC week, a time to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This year’s theme Always Was, Always Will Be reminds everyone that First Nations ...people have lived and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years. While looking in our galleries we challenge you to think about what objects might mean in the context of First Nations history. Let us know if you have a different perspective to tell about the objects in our galleries. #NAIDOC2020

13.01.2022 Settlement Square has pavers from 91 different countries - from Afghanistan to Argentina, Canada to China and India to Ireland. To date there are 659 pavers acknowledging families from Italy. Emidio de Ieso and Immacolata DeRosa migrated from Pago Veiano, Italy in the 1950s. For further information about Italian migration to South Australia visit SA History Hub: https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au//italians-in-south- To honour your family with a Settlement Square paver visit - https://migration.history.sa.gov.au//migration-museum-fou/ Closing dates for Settlement Square pavers for 2021 are: 9 April, 6 August and 5 November. Photo: Mr Emidio de Ieso and family, Settlement Square, 2017. Photographer: Elena Bailey

12.01.2022 Siblings Michael and Angela chose to honour their parents’ journey at the Migration Museum. Find out why it’s a special tribute for them. Support the Migration Museum today https://migration.history.sa.gov.au//migration-museum-fou/

12.01.2022 Getting ready for the first performance of 6 this afternoon at the Migration Museum as part of On The Terrace, Chamber Music Adelaide’s annual presentation of musical vignettes in cultural institutions

10.01.2022 In the 2016 census, 26,495 South Australians indicated that they were of Dutch descent. Before World War II, there were few Dutch people living in South Australia. However, by 1961, there were 12,539 Dutch South Australians. Many had emigrated following the 1951 Netherlands Australian Migration Agreement. Under this agreement, both the Netherlands and Australia contributed to the cost of migrant passages. South Australian Anna Kerkemeyer was a member of a Dutch dance group du...ring the 1960s and 1970s. During her time with this group, Anna made traditional Dutch costumes from patterns sourced from Marken and Volendam in the Netherlands. Pictured is a costume from Volendam consisting of a blue striped shirt, black woolen trousers, and a black fur cap. Traditionally worn by fishermen, the trousers were designed to fill with air and provide buoyancy if they fell overboard. Plus, the metal buttons at the front would have been silver coins so that if the fisherman had spent all his money at the village fair, he could break the coins off his trousers! Look at other Volendam costumes in our collection: https://bit.ly/34Siuu1 #MigrationMuseums #ManyLanguagesofSA

10.01.2022 We love this teacup installation in the British Migrant Instant Australians? exhibition, produced by Museums Victoria. You have one more week to explore this wonderful display in Adelaide before it closes on Sunday, 6 of December. #MigrantStories #MigrationMuseums

07.01.2022 This crocheted doll from our collection represents ’Detox’, a contestant from the TV show 'Ru Paul's Drag Race', which is a popular talent show for drag queens. Artist Richard Boyle explores Queer culture through his crocheted dolls in ‘amigurumi’ style (Japanese art of small, yarn creatures). For this year’s Feast Festival he invites the community to be part of his Flamboyance exhibition. More information here: https://www.feast.org.au/?s=richard&post_type=events Image: Detox amigurumi doll, HT 2015.1042 #feastfest #pridevember

06.01.2022 Great news everyone! The doors to the Migration Museum, and other History Trust of South Australia museums including National Motor Museum - Australia and South Australian Maritime Museum will open again from 10 am tomorrow morning, Sunday 22 November. We’re still keeping COVIDSafe with ... 1 person per 4 square metres ongoing regular cleaning sanitation stations for visitors physical distancing guidelines contact tracing for all visitors. You can keep COVIDSafe by Always practice good hygiene and physical distancing Use a mask when physical distancing can’t be maintained Stay at home unless you need to travel Jump online to explore our museums, collections and programs! A reminder that school visits and public events that were to take place up to and including 29 November remain cancelled in line with SA Government guidelines. https://history.sa.gov.au/blog/were-reopening-our-doors/

03.01.2022 Join the Australian Lebanese Association this weekend to learn more about Lebanese culture in South Australia while enjoying a traditional coffee and sweet delicacy. The exhibition presents the growth of early Lebanese immigrants into the business and professional lives of their descendants. The display includes the famous works and life of the celebrated Khalil Gibran, poet, artist and author of The Prophet. When: Saturday and Sunday from 10-4pm. Where: Migration Museum... https://festival.history.sa.gov.au//the-ala-presents-the-/ #MigrationMuseums #SAHistoryFest

03.01.2022 Yesterday we were delighted to host a Deaf community afternoon tea for #NAIDOC week, bringing together Deaf mob, TAFE students studying #Auslan, MM curators, and our wonderful 'Expressing Ourselves: being Deaf in SA' development committee (who gave tours of the exhibition in Auslan). Thankyou to all who attended and shared their stories, achievements, and points of view, and enjoyed many chocolate biscuits! Special thanks to all at Deaf Aboriginal Services for facilitating. #naidocatmm

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02.01.2022 Helping everyone stay safe - a reminder that our friends at MCCSA have a health and wellbeing website that includes information on Covid-19 in 80 community languages: https://healthandwellness.mccsa.org.au/

01.01.2022 An article about @PeterDrewArts latest poster series, which has recently popped up in Adelaide. We are the proud owners of a one-ff work by Peter in our foyer - check it out online or in person :-) https://www.theage.com.au//these-things-just-keep-happenin

01.01.2022 Today is the 11th anniverdary of the National Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants. We remember their courage, stories and struggles for acknowledgement.