Voices across time

What: EXHIBITION
When: Open 10am to 5pm daily
Tickets: Included with museum entry
$0 to $15

First Peoples' culture and connections stretch back into Deep Time and their sovereignty is unceded.

People from around the world left their homes and arrived here, impacting the Country and lives of First Peoples. They also brought their memories and cultures, and they continue to contribute to an evolving diverse society.

Journey through time to hear how the stories of First Peoples and the migrants that followed have intersected in joy, sorrow, loss and resilience.

Stories now showing

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Attache Case: creating a collective artwork

In 2015, curator, writer and artist Peter Burke invited current and former asylum seekers and refugees to create artworks for an international touring installation that addressed their experiences.

Three young girls looking at the camera. They are playing tea parties

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Girlhood

Fair and fascinating: girls in 19th century Victoria.

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Setsutaro Hasegawa

Setsutaro Hasegawa, Japanese migrant and WWII internee, 1897-1952

Students on stage performing ‘She’ll Be Right’. Still from the film Acts of Translation, 2018

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Forget the Stereotypes

Presents the moving experiences of contemporary international students in Melbourne through an evocative filmic experience.

Eleven Mokambo Orchestra band members, including a female singer. Band leader Ugo Ceresoli with accordion at far right. There are six music stands standing in front of band members across the front of stage.

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The Ceresoli brothers

It is 1964, on a footpath in Carlton. Outside La Cumparsita Hall small groups of finely-dressed revellers take in the cool air. They are here for the music and spectacle of the Ceresoli brothers’ Ballo Mokambo.