The Migration Museum is a social history museum that focuses on the immigration and settlement history of South Australia. The museum aims to promote cultural diversity and multiculturalism.
The museum opened in 1986 and is located near the State Library of South Australia, the South Australian Museum, and the University of Adelaide.
The museum is housed in a complex of early colonial bluestone buildings set around a courtyard, including the city’s former destitute asylum from 1850–1918.
Prior to the museum, the site was the location of the “Native School”, which aimed to educate Australian aboriginal children.
Highlights of the Migration Museum, Adelaide
- Colonel Light’s surveying chain
- Charles Sturt’s paintbox
- ‘White Australia’ Exhibits
- Migration Pathways exhibition – highlights the personal stories of people who arrived in South Australia
- Immigration Initiatives exhibit – includes
- the ‘White Australia’ policy
- juvenile migration schemes
- displaced persons migrating post Second World War
- British migration schemes
- Migrant hostels
- The History of the Migration Museum site
- The Impact on Australian Aboriginal people
Migration Museum, Adelaide
- Name: Migration Museum, Adelaide
- City: Adelaide
- State: South Australia
- Country: Australia
- Established: 1986
- Type: Social history museum
- Location: 82 Kintore Ave, Adelaide
Migration Museum, Adelaide – Map
Migration Museum, Adelaide – Virtual Tour
Migration Museum, Adelaide – Virtual Tour
Migration Museum, Adelaide – Virtual Tour
A Virtual Tour of Indigenous Aboriginal Art And Artifacts
- Australian Aboriginal Rock Art – Bradshaw Rock Paintings
- Indigenous Australian Rock Art – Wandjina Style
- Australian Aboriginal Bark Paintings in World Museums
- Australian Aboriginal Sayings and Quotes
Migration Museum, Adelaide
Migration Museum, Adelaide
A Tour of Museums in Australia
- Museums in Sydney
- Museums in Melbourne
- Museums in Canberra
- Museums in Brisbane
- Museums in Perth
- Museums in Adelaide
- Museums in Hobart
- Museums in Darwin
Migration Museum, Adelaide
Building a new life in South Australia
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“A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.”
– Renzo Piano
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Photo Credit: By Bahudhara (Own work Original filename = DSC13490) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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