Search the collections
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.
Items per page: 10 50 (showing 11 - 20) 173 items
-
Lantern Slide - Panorama Type, Ethnographic Portraits, 1866-1920
Alternative Name(s): Children's Slide; Panorama Magic Lantern Slide. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'I Must Hab One Ob Dem Chicks', 1900-1950
Number 2 of a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'Dis Pole Will Be Ob Use', 1900-1950
Number 3 of a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'I Was Allers A Inwentor', 1900-1950
Number 4 of a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'I Tought She Couldn't Resist a Roostin Place', 1900-1950
Number 5 of a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'How Is Dat Fo' High?', 1900-1950
One of a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Australian ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'De Hand Ob Providence was In Dis!', 1900-1950
Number 7 in a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Lantern Slide - 'Ab Im De Nex Time'
Number 8 in a series of early 20th century narrative lantern slides. This lantern slide is part of the Francis Collection of pre-cinematic apparatus and ephemera, acquired by the Austr ...
Images: 1 -
Painting - 'Bonegilla, A Long Place with Long Things', Mai Maddisson, Framed, circa 1990s
Framed acrylic painting titled 'Bonegilla, A Long Place with Long Things' by Mai Maddisson. Mai painted this work from memory in the 1990s for an exhibition in 1999. Mai arrived in Melb ...
Images: 1 -
Slide - Latvian Weaving Tablet, circa 1985
Slide shows a Latvian weaving tablet and illustrates the weaving technique involved. A narrow band of red and white patterned weaving is shown in process. Tablet weaving, also known as ...
Images: 1
