Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia
19 September – 16 November 2025
The Migration Museum’s Banners project started in 1985, the year before the museum opened to the public. From the outset, the museum focused on working with culturally diverse communities. The project served as a way for the new museum to form relationships with many of South Australia’s migrant community groups, and to represent those groups in the new collection.
The Banners project had other goals too: of preserving the cultural heritage of the migrant groups, including arts and crafts techniques (used to create the banners themselves) and of promoting awareness in the community of the rich cultural diversity present in South Australia. Responding to the theme of ‘memories and dreams’ the artists – at times individuals, at times groups and committees – created banners that reflect both memories of their countries of origin and dreams for their life in their new home.
Wine Sponsor
Image credits (from left): Polish banner (detail), Irish banner (detail), Greek Orthodox Community of SA banner (detail)