Stolen Childhoods

From October 2011 to May 2012, the Immigration Museum hosted On Their Own, a touring exhibition about the international history of child migration created by the National Maritime Museum of Australia and National Museums Liverpool. The museum also developed a companion exhibition, Stolen Childhoods, to tell the story of three child migrants in Victoria and Tasmania: Hugh McGowan, Sandra Anker and Michael Harvey.

So many people visited the child migrants exhibition and were moved by the first-person accounts of Hugh, Sandra and Michael their stories are now online along with the podcast from the public forum, hosted at the museum on March 31, 2012.

Images from the exhibition On their own

  • exhibition showcase
  • back lite image in exhibition display
  • back lite image in exhibition display
  • Exhbition showcase of documents and objects relating to David Summerfield
  • Text Panels in the exhibition
  • Screen in the exhibition and hand writtne notes posted on the wall
  • exhibition showcase displaying documents relating to child migration
exhibition showcase
back lite image in exhibition display
back lite image in exhibition display
Exhbition showcase of documents and objects relating to David Summerfield
Text Panels in the exhibition
Screen in the exhibition and hand writtne notes posted on the wall
exhibition showcase displaying documents relating to child migration

Britain's Child Migration exhibition on display in Immigration Museum.
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria

Britain's Child Migration exhibition on display in Immigration Museum
Image: Rodney Start
Source: Museum Victoria

Britain's Child Migration exhibition on display in Immigration Museum.
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria

Britain's Child Migration exhibition display in Immigration Museum. This display tells the David Summerfield's story .
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria

Britain's Child Migration exhibition on display in Immigration Museum.
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria

Britain's Child Migration exhibition on display in Immigration Museum.
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria

Britain's Child Migration exhibition on display in Immigration Museum.
Image: Jon Augier
Source: Museum Victoria