Immigrant Stories and Timeline

What: EXHIBITION
When: Daily 10am–5pm
Tickets: Included with museum entry
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Immigration is about us all – those who were here and those who came.

Everyone has a story to tell – about ourselves, our families, friends and ancestors. It is in the telling of these stories that we can begin to understand Victoria’s rich histories.

This gallery explores why people have migrated to Victoria, where they settled and how they started a new life here. The stories change annually and represent a diverse array of time periods, motivations and cultural backgrounds. Some feature Museum Victoria collections, others have been developed through partnerships with families and communities.

Stories now showing

International Students, four former students from four different countries, 2016-18
Ugo and Bruno Ceresoli, Italian migrant brothers and Melbourne performers, 1950s
May Vale, a transnational perspective, 1862-1942
Gung family, Chinese migrants, three generations since 1890
Nickel Mundabi Ngadwa, refugee from Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and artist, 2009

Around the walls of the gallery is an immigration timeline that highlights key events in the history of immigration to Victoria and its impact upon First Peoples in Victoria.