
Going Back: How the Migration Museum Began
Today migration museums are dotted all over the world – from Buenos Aires to Bremerhaven, New York to Norway. Rewind just thirty years and this particular breed of museum was...
On museology, engagement and digital culture
Today migration museums are dotted all over the world – from Buenos Aires to Bremerhaven, New York to Norway. Rewind just thirty years and this particular breed of museum was...
I thought it would be interesting to share some of the joys – and hurdles – of researching the lives of people from our past. While working on ‘In this...
Nikki is a curator at the Migration Museum. I don’t think I ever really decided that I wanted to be a curator, but a few years ago I did decide that I wanted to work in the GLAM sector [Galleries Libraries Archives and Museums] and so completed a Graduate Diploma...
Corinne works as a curator at the Migration Museum. After uni I worked in the book trade for 15 years, first in London and then Adelaide, but decided in my 30s to retrain to indulge my lifelong passion for history. I’d always been a keen museum visitor, and thought it would...
The buildings that now house the Migration Museum were once part of Adelaide’s Destitute Asylum. This site, which had been Kaurna land for millennia, was occupied by Europeans from the...
Madelena Bendo is the Education Officer at the Migration Museum. The role is managed through Outreach Education, part of the Department for Education and Child Development (DECD). I really enjoy working with young people. I relish their freshness and their openness to knowledge. As a child of a migrant, I...
Earlier this week we launched our new exhibition in the Migration Museum’s community access gallery, the Forum. The exhibition has been put together by staff and students from Thebarton Senior College. Thebarton has a large program for English language students, most of whom are recent arrivals to Australia, and many...
In 2013 the Migration Museum unveiled a small display about the Dutch in South Australia, which featured costumes used in the 1960s and 1970s at a Dutch cultural club in Adelaide. To generations of Dutch people around the world Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas, who has a red robe and big white...
On Sunday 27 September the Migration Museum hosted The Bosnian Way, a CultureSpace event co-created with the Bosnian Community in South Australia.