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Museums Victoria / Immigration Museum

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We Outside
We Outside
Exhibition
Voices Across Time
Voices Across Time
Exhibition
Joy: See it. Share it.
Joy: See it. Share it.
Exhibition
Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
Exhibition
Low Sensory Sessions
Low Sensory Sessions
Special event
Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour
Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour
Tour
The Resonant Heart
The Resonant Heart
Special event
We Outside
We Outside
Exhibition
Voices Across Time
Voices Across Time
Exhibition
Joy: See it. Share it.
Joy: See it. Share it.
Exhibition
Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
Exhibition
Low Sensory Sessions
Low Sensory Sessions
Special event
Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour
Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour
Tour
The Resonant Heart
The Resonant Heart
Special event

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Forbidden objects in the museum's collection
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Forbidden objects in the museum's collection

What do a doll, religious text, gun, and surprised-looking cat have in common?
A discovery of stitches: needlework and 19th century girlhood
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A discovery of stitches: needlework and 19th century girlhood

What can needlework samplers tell us about often forgotten figures from history?
The Pizzini women and their ‘souls of steel’
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The Pizzini women and their ‘souls of steel’

How three generations of strong women helped build a wine and tourism dynasty
An underground affair
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An underground affair

An anti-Vietnam war love story.
One Year On
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One Year On

One Year On – Stories of COVID-19 in Melbourne's Suburbs is a digital display that brings together a snapshot of stories collected across the suburbs of Melbourne in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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COLLECTION HIGHLIGHTS

On display now at Immigration Museum

Standard Volume - Imperial Pint, Brass, Melbourne Observatory, Victoria, circa 1860s-1900s

Jug - Melbourne Centenary, William Adams & Sons, 1934

Passport - British, Archibald Maclaurin, 2 Aug 1927

Identity Tag - Red Cross, Hendrika Perdon, The Netherlands, 1940s

Patch - Quilt, Patchwork, Kay Family, Scotland, circa 1840s

Safety Helmet - Blue, Pigment Manufacturers of Australia, circa 1988

Accordion - Ugo Ceresoli, Fratelli Crosio, Stradella, Italy, post 1950

Garment. Yorta Yorta, Taungurung, Boonwurrung and Mutti Mutti, Yorta Yorta, Taungurong, Boonwurrung, Mutti Mutti. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 2019
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