Immigration Museum

Welcome back!

Open daily 10am–5pm

We're delighted that Immigration Museum will reopen on Saturday 30 October 2021. Don’t miss out – pre-book your tickets today!

Exhibition Daily 10am–5pm

Becoming You: An incomplete guide

Exploring the unpredictable process of leaving childhood and becoming an adult.

Older woman smiling holding a red paint pot and brush.

Pop-up exhibition Daily

Being Mirka

Explores the many wonderful facets of Melbourne’s cultural icon Mirka Mora through precious objects from the Museum’s Mirka Mora collection.

Exhibition Daily 10am–5pm

Atong Atem: To Be Real

A new series of large-scale photographic works by award-winning artist Atong Atem.

Immigration Museum respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Country on which we stand, and we pay our respects to First Peoples across Victoria and Australia.

Language – Boon Wurrung and Woi Wurrung

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Museum at Home. Always open.

Enjoy a world of museum experiences from anywhere!
Hear from our local cultural makers, explore rich and wonderful identity narratives and stories and reflect on global histories that shape society today.

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Food & Cooking

Sharing meals and the stories behind them

Celebrating UN International Migrants Day, We Together.

Food & Cooking

Grow Gather Share

Celebrating locally grown food and diverse food cultures in Victoria.

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My Favourite Object

Our visitor engagement officers (VEOs) share some of their favourite objects!

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Stories

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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?

Two women in a vineyard holding a black and white photo.

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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

A young couple who look happy and in love.

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An underground affair

An anti-Vietnam war love story.

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Amrita Hepi Dances in the Long Room at the Immigration Museum

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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.

A crowd of people on top of a wall with a gate of stone columns behind them.

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

Dr Rolf Schmidt on witnessing history unfold.

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A girl posing amongst illustrations of spaceships and stars.

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Offer ends 31 Oct 2021. Not available in conjunction with any other offer.

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