Immigration Museum

Home is Football...is connection, community, belonging...

Step onto the pitch with Immigration Museum’s newest community exhibition, Home is Football: Belonging in Australian Soccer.

Discover the stories of nine players and explore how football continues to shape culture, community and identity for Australians from all walks of life.

Plus, enjoy behind-the-scenes insight with exclusive gallery talks across the opening weekend, led by museum experts.

⚽ Opening Saturday 13 June.

🎟️ Included in general museum entry. Book here: https://brnw.ch/21x2Z09

🗣️ Gallery Talks: 11am and 1pm Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 June.
Home is Football has been produced with support from Melbourne Victory and Professional Footballers Australia.

Creative Victoria.

Image Credit: Nazia Ali, Afghan Women’s Team v. Melvern City, Melbourne, 2021. Source: © Melbourne Victory. Photographer: Alex Pavlidis.

Culture Makers has landed at Immigration Museum. 🔥

Discover a powerful collection of short films by diverse digital storytellers exploring belonging, identity, prejudice, family and community through animation, performance, interviews, stop-motion and narrative film.

Explore their voices for a limited time.

🎟️ Included with general museum entry.

📸 (L-R): Nor Shanino and Ahmed Dini; Feifei Liao and Arti Shah; Logan Tapuala; Pauline Pham and Thang Van Pham; Taka and Youbi; Yo Soy Collective; Kate Robinson and Maria Birch-Morunga.

Culture Makers has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Scanlon Foundation Research Institute.

Experience the magic of the seasons like never before.

Step into a breathtaking immersive journey through spring, summer, autumn and winter at Immigration Museum, inspired by Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons.

Created in collaboration with Fever, Zurich-based artist collective PROJECTKIL brings Eonarium Enlightenment to life with stunning projections and an atmospheric soundscape inside the museum’s grand Long Room — for a limited time only.

🎟️ 🎟️ Book here: https://brnw.ch/21x2QFa

Explore the Immigration Museum and discover stores of connection, culture and migration.

📅 Open every day, 10am - 5pm.

👉 Plan your visit: https://brnw.ch/21x2LHg

Our final K-Publishing workshop is almost sold out! ⭐📘

In this final session, Kids’ Own artists Viet-My Bui and Julie Choi will join participants to review their book and add the finishing touches ahead of its official launch in July.

📅 1.30 - 3.30pm, Saturday June 20

🎟️ Register for free here: https://brnw.ch/21x2FQT

Presented with support from the Australian Government and . Workshops hosted by Julie Choi and .

“Expectation” by Melbourne-based Iranian refugee Mitra Ashtiani encapsulates the emotional toll and uncertainty faced by refugees in Australia.

Born in Tehran, Iran, Mitra didn’t originally train as an artist — she studied science and marketing management. Painting began as a personal outlet, something she loved. But after arriving in Australia in 2013 as a refugee, her art became way to process uncertainty and isolation as she waited for visa approval.

In the space of not-knowing, Mitra's future felt frail. She describes her dreams as something frail, flying away like birds out of a cage.

Source: Museums Victoria. Artist: Melbourne Artists for Asylum Seekers Inc, Mitra Ashtiani. 2014.

Every journey leaves a mark.

Our Tribute Garden commemorates 7000 people who have migrated to Victoria from over 90 countries.

Honouring journeys from the 1800s to today, this peaceful public artwork is a reminder that migration stories are woven into the heart of our city and communities.

Created by Melbourne-based artist Evangelos Sakaris.

📍 Included with museum entry.
📅 Open daily.

Creative Victoria.

Happy Mother's Day to the women who make our worlds go round. ❤️

Across generations, cultures and continents, today we celebrate some of the mums featured in our collection. 👇

📸: Mother & First Baby in Kitchen, First Day at Home, Elwood, 1950. Source: Museums Victoria. Photographer: Henrick Sonnewald. Contributed by Mrs Patricia Morgan.

📸: Mother, Father & Baby, Midway Migrant Hostel, Maribyrnong, 1974.

📸: Kinda Alsamara With Her Mother, Damascus, Syria, mid 1980s. Source: Museums Victoria. Copyright: Kinda Alsamara.

📸: Mother sitting with Baby on Front Porch Steps, South Melbourne, circa 1930. Source: Museums Victoria. Photographer: Joseph Starkey.