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Migration

Discover stories behind the latest exhibitions, fascinating explorations into migration, and the surprising details of what happens inside (and outside) a modern working museum.

 

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Migration Stories

Migration Stories, is the museum's digital experience dedicated to sharing complex, challenging and emotional stories about how people are shaped by migration.

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War Brides

This online exhibition explores stories of Australian women who married American servicemen during World War II.

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Left to right: Monga Khan AUSSIE and Gladys Sym Choon AUSSIE posters by Peter Drew, 2020. National Maritime Collection, reproduced courtesy the artist

New immigration acquisitions

We look at three new acquisitions to the museum's collection that relates to Australia's rich immigration history.

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Mother and Daughter on Migration Vessel

We Are Many: Stories of Australia's Migrants

An e-book illuminating voices and stories of migrants registered on the museum's National Monument to Migration

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Articles

Cane farmers

06 Aug 2018

Operation Kangaroo
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26 Jun 2018

The Staging Post
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18 May 2018

The saga of Skaubryn
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09 May 2018

Welcome Wall May 2018
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28 Mar 2018

Migration and photography: The Skaubryn archive
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14 Feb 2018

Two centuries of Chinese migration
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29 Nov 2017

Two invasions, two nations and a solitary carving
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28 Nov 2017

The beautiful Balts – 70 years on
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07 Nov 2017

Remembering the White Russians
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Britain's Child Migrants

Online exhibition – On Their Own: Britain's Child Migrants

From the 1860s, more than 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Canada, Australia, and other Commonwealth countries through child migration schemes. 
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At the museum

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Passengers
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Habitat

Vessel

Tu Do
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Welcome Wall
Australia’s National Monument to Migration
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We Are Many - Stories of Australia's Migrants
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Waves of Migration
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A fishing boat called Freedom: the story of Tu Do
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The Strange Big Canoe
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Australian National Maritime Museum & The Sea
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Timelapse - Sea Monsters exhibition install
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