Search the collections
Immigrant Stories & Timeline, Immigration Museum Exhibition, 1998-2015
Image: Immigrant Stories: Edda Azzola
Source: Museum Victoria
Overview
The Immigrant Stories and Timeline Gallery shifts the focus of visitors from a global to a very local and personalised perspective. The central exhibition features five displays each highlighting a personal story to represent a different period in Australia's immigration history: 1800-1900, 1901-1940, 1940s-1960s, 1970s-1980s and 1990s-Present. These stories are supplemented by two further display cases in the subsequent Journey of a Lifetime gallery. These cases, each of which changes on an annual rotation, tell personal stories through objects, images, text and audio visual presentations. The selection of stories aims to achieve a broad diversity of representation in terms of country and culture of origin, gender, motivation for migrating and settlement experiences. Each story also includes a contextual text panel, which expands on a particular migration theme represented by the personal story - for example World War II internment, chain migration, migrant textile workers, Empire Settlement Scheme, and migrant hostels. The displays are developed in variety of ways depending on the particular story - through the Museum's own collections, often only recently acquired, through family loans and community collaborations.
Also featured is an Immigration Timeline which runs around the perimeter of the gallery. Through text and images it provides a decade by decade summary of key moments in Victoria's immigration history, highlighting significant policy and social developments, shifts in population and demographics, debate and the impact of immigration upon Indigenous Australians.
The exhibition is supported by an online version of the Immigration Timeline which features links to migration objects for each decade and cartoons by Melbourne cartoonist Oslo Davis who provides a contemporary interpretation on key migration issues over time.
Museum Victoria objects featured in past and present Immigrant Stories can be explored by following the links to collections online listed below.Further Exhibition Content
The current Immigrant Stories cases currently on display are
1800-1900: John Cotton, England, 1843
1901-1940: Karl Muffler, Germany, 1930 you can find out more about Karl on the discovery centre website and collections online
1940s-1960s: Edda Azzola, Italy, 1955 you can find out more about Edda on collections online
1970s-1980s: Youssef, Romanos and Tansa Eid, Lebanon, 1960s you can find out more about the Eid brothers on the discovery centre website
1990s-Present: Yasser Al-Alwayi, Iraq, 2007
Some of the past Immigrant Stories are
- Neil Black, Scotland, 1839
- Lili Sigalas, Greece, 1922 you can find out more about Lili on collections online
- Susannah Nicholls, England, 1923 you can find out more about Susannah on collections online
- Leopoldine Mimovich, Poland, 1949 you can find out more about Poldi on collections online and Hear Her Voice
- Anna Apinis, Latvia, 1950 you can find out more about Anna on collections online, Culture Victoria and Hear Her Voice
- Jose Alonso, Cuba 1968, you can find out more about Jose on the discovery centre website
- Mai Ho, Vietnam, 1981 you can find out more about Mai on collections online and Hear Her Voice
- Masumi Hiraga-Jackson, Japan, 1985 you can find out more about Masumi on the discovery centre website and collections online
- Gaston Munoz, Chile, 1987, you can find out more about Gaston on the discovery centre website
- Nyabana Riek, southern Sudan, 1995 you can find out more about Nyabana on collections online and Culture Victoria
- Bul Bulkoch, southern Sudan, 1996 you can find out more about Bul on collections online
(showing 1 - 6) 6 items
-
Paint Box - Watercolour, Charles Roberson & Co, circa 1860s
Alternative Name(s): Paintbox, Watercolour Box, Colour Box, Paint Pallette Rectangular wooden paint box containing pallette of watercolour paints. Made by Charles Roberson & Co, no. 99 ...
Images: 1 -
Knitting Machine - Dubied, Switzerland, pre 1958
'Dubied' knitting machine brought to Australia from Italy in the 1950s by an Italian migrant woman and then sold to Edda Azzola, who migrated to Melbourne from Italy in 1955. It was use ...
From: Couvet, Switzerland Images: 1 -
Bathers - Edda Azzola, Womens', Navy Wool, Italian, 1950s
This pair of woollen female bathers was made by Italian migrant Edda Azzola on the family knitting machine in Italy in the 1950s. Edda was a domestic knitting machinist by trade and mad ...
From: Carlton North, Australia Images: 1 -
Program - Club Tivoli 125th Anniversary, 1985
This is a German Singers Festival Program, presumably part of the Club Tivoli 125th silver jubilee celebrations for 1985. It was held at the Camberwell Civic Centre on 8 June, 1985. Kar ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 4 -
Drawing - Camp Grounds, Tatura Interment Camp, Karl Muffler, 1942
This is a black and white pencil drawing by Karl Muffler (initialled), which he completed at Tatura internment camp, northern Victoria, on 28 January, 1942. It documents the camp ground ...
From: Tatura, Australia Images: 2 -
Lesson Plan - Grade 1 Cake Decoration, Karl Muffler, William Angliss Food Trades School, 1 ...
This is a lesson plan for cake decorating Grade 1, August, Week 12 - 'Decorating with Butter Cream.' It features hand-drawn cake decorations designs for three cakes. Karl Muffler taugh ...
From: Melbourne, Australia Images: 2
