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Cultural Diversity Collection
Image: Cambodian Figurine - Campanologist
Source: Museum Victoria
The Cultural Diversity Collection is a cross-collection of objects encompassing all of the History and Technology collections, both conceptually and practically, and considers cultural diversity in its broadest sense.
The only specific collections belonging to this wider collection are those not the current focus of other History and Technology collections. Some of the most important are gay and lesbian material, youth culture, ageing, homelessness, cultural affirmation and discrimination, sociology and social work, and volunteerism.
Cultural diversity encompasses all individual or community variations in our society, relating to self-definition and the definitions applied by others. It includes ethnicity, nationality, race, descent or ancestry, physical appearance and ability, language, age, health, location, political belief or activity, economic status, employment, industrial activity, gender and gender identity, sexual activity, marital status, religious belief or activity, ideologies and personal associations.
Significant items
- Australian Children's Folklore Collection, regarded as one of the largest and most significant of its kind in the world.
- Psychiatric Services Collection, including more than 800 objects recording the history of pre-1950s psychiatric institutions in Victoria.
- Pentridge Prison collection, including 182 objects documenting the prison's structure and functions; and collections from several manufacturing organisations.
- Immigration and Artistic Practice Collection.
- Cambodian figurine collection.
- Italian Historical Society Collection.
- Cohen and Steinberg retail collections.
- Immigration documents.
- Postwar Hungarian community objects.
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Leaflet - 'The Racial Discrimination Act and You', Human Rights Commission, Polish text, ...
Brochure with Polish text providing information about human rights, obtaining assistance from the Commission, lodging complaints and a fear-off form for completion for lodging a complai ...
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Leaflet - 'The Racial Discrimination Act and You', Human Rights Commission, Serbian text, ...
Brochure with Serbian text providing information about human rights, obtaining assistance from the Commission, lodging complaints and a fear-off form for completion for lodging a compla ...
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Leaflet - 'The Racial Discrimination Act and You', Human Rights Commission, Spanish text, ...
Brochure with Spanish text providing information about human rights, obtaining assistance from the Commission, lodging complaints and a fear-off form for completion for lodging a compla ...
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Leaflet - 'The Racial Discrimination Act and You', Human Rights Commission, Turkish text, ...
Brochure with Turkish text providing information about human rights, obtaining assistance from the Commission, lodging complaints and a fear-off form for completion for lodging a compla ...
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Leaflet - 'The Racial Discrimination Act and You', Human Rights Commission, Vietnamese te ...
Brochure with Vietnamese text providing information about human rights, obtaining assistance from the Commission, lodging complaints and a fear-off form for completion for lodging a com ...
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Booklet - 'Education in Australia', No 8, Commonwealth of Australia, Apr 1973
One of series of information booklets produced by the Australian Government in the 1970s for prospective migrants from North America. This booklet provides information on pre-school, pr ...
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Booklet - 'Education in Australia', No 41, Department of Immigration, Apr 1974
One of series of information booklets produced by the Australian Government in the 1970s for prospective migrants from North America. This booklet provides information on pre-school, pr ...
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Advertisement - Bushells China Tea, 1950
Paper Bushells China Tea advertisement cut out of The Australian Women's Weekly, 7 January 1950. The advertisement appears on page 48 and has an image of a Chinese woman, which is styli ...
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Advertisement - Bushells Essence of Coffee & Chicory, 7 Oct 1950
Paper page advertisement cut of out the supplement to The Argus, 7 October 1950. The Advertisement is on the back of page 31, and depicts a woman pouring hot water into a cup and a bott ...
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Diary - Ally Heathcote, Shipboard on SS Northumberland, England to Melbourne, 1874
Diary written by Ally Heathcote on SS Northumberland, England to Melbourne, 1874. Her two page Preface outlines a brief biography. Born in Preston in the North of England, she arrived i ...
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