Migration Museum, Adelaide

Visited the migration museum on 27 April 22. Love how the exhibit talks about the history of migration to Australia and to some extent Adelaide. My favorite bit was the recent coverage of migrants experiences from 2000s onwards and how they felt about certain events. Really authentic interviews on how migrants felt welcomed in Aussie. Remember to visit the visitor information for a map on how to navigate the area. Unfortunately, they were renovating some of the exhibits during my visit.

The Migration Museum is a great site to visit in Adelaide, being the only of its kind I’ve personally seen! Here you’ll see exhibitions of a variety of cases and histories about migration through Australia and South Australia. At the time of me visiting, this included two series of artworks telling stories of the Aboriginal people and the impact of European colonisation, some series of older maps of the world and such, then going into modern history such as the White Australia Policy, refugee crisis, etc. Overall a lovely place to visit to learn about some aspects of migration history here. I say “some” because while the museum does have a variety of cases of migration, most of it appears to focus onto the negative parts (White Australia Policy, refugees, colonisation, etc) which is good to know and learn, but it might be disappointing if you were expecting more of the positive parts.