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Museums Victoria / Immigration Museum

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Tribute Garden
display | daily
Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
exhibition | daily
Lingua Madre | Mother Tongue
special event | ​​Friday 27 November to ​Saturday 28 November
On Country: Photography from Australia
exhibition | Friday 16 October to Sunday 13 June 2027
Diwali at the Museum
festival | Saturday 7 November
Indian Embroidery Workshop
Workshop | Saturday 7 November
Nukkad Naach: Australia's First South Asian Cypher
SHOW | SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Home is Football: Belonging in Australian Soccer
Exhibition | Opens Saturday 13 June
Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour
tour | daily
French Conversation Club
special event | Last Saturday of the month from 29 August
Tribute Garden
display | daily
Identity: Yours, Mine, Ours
exhibition | daily
Lingua Madre | Mother Tongue
special event | ​​Friday 27 November to ​Saturday 28 November
On Country: Photography from Australia
exhibition | Friday 16 October to Sunday 13 June 2027
Diwali at the Museum
festival | Saturday 7 November
Indian Embroidery Workshop
Workshop | Saturday 7 November
Nukkad Naach: Australia's First South Asian Cypher
SHOW | SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER
Home is Football: Belonging in Australian Soccer
Exhibition | Opens Saturday 13 June
Immigration Museum Guided Highlights Tour
tour | daily
French Conversation Club
special event | Last Saturday of the month from 29 August
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Museums Victoria's interdisciplinary humanities journal
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Museums Victoria's interdisciplinary humanities journal

Explore humanities research from Museums Victoria and across the museum sector with the latest volume of PRISM. This volume examines museum collections, architecture and exhibitions, with articles from curators, collection managers, artists and academics. 
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.
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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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