{{Short description|Culture museum in Adelaide, South Australia}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox museum | name = Migration Museum | image = Migration Museum, Adelaide (17 June 2025) 35.jpg | image_size = 200 | caption = The museum in 2025 | alt = | map_type = | map_caption = | map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|-34.9198|138.6020|display=inline}} | established = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1986|11|23}} | dissolved = | location = 82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia | type = Culture museum | visitors = 183,936 (2015–16)<ref>[http://history.sa.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/annual-report-2015-2016.pdf History Trust of South Australia Annual Report 2015/16] Retrieved 30 January 2018.</ref> | public_transit = | website = https://migration.history.sa.gov.au/ }} The '''Migration Museum''' is a social history museum located in Adelaide, South Australia. It is one of the three museums operated by the History Trust of South Australia.<ref>[http://history.sa.gov.au History Trust of South Australia] Retrieved 30 January 2018.</ref> It deals with the immigration and settlement history of South Australia, and maintains both a permanent and a rotating collection of works.
==History== Founded as an initiative of the State government in 1983, and with the museum opening on 23 November 1986, the Migration Museum in Adelaide is the oldest museum of its kind in Australia.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070923115043/http://www.migrationmuseums.org/web/index.php?page=migration-museum-state-of-south-australia International Network of Migration Institutions]}}</ref> The museum aims to promote cultural diversity and multiculturalism, which they define as including aspects of ethnicity, class, gender, age, and region.<ref>[http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/doc/migrationmus_1.pdf Press Release - Aims of the Migration Museum, Adelaide (1993)]</ref>
The site is located on Kintore Avenue between the State Library of South Australia, the South Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide, in a complex of early colonial bluestone buildings set around a courtyard, including the city's former destitute asylum (from 1850 to 1918). Before this, the site was the location of the "Native School", which aimed to educate Aboriginal children.<ref>[http://migration.historysa.com.au/events/2011/behind-wall Migration Museum > Behind the Wall] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201082713/http://migration.historysa.com.au/events/2011/behind-wall |date=1 December 2012 }} Retrieved 26 November 2012.</ref> ===Renovation=== The museum will close for essential conservation work to the building for 18 months to two years, from 1 July 2026.<ref name=indaily2026>{{cite web | title=Key Adelaide museum to close for essential works | website=InDaily | date=1 May 2026 |first =Charlie | last = Gilchrist| url=https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/05/01/key-adelaide-museum-to-close-for-essential-works | access-date=1 May 2026}}</ref>
==Features and program== The museum has a full program of activities including education programs for school groups, public events and family friendly fun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://migration.history.sa.gov.au/learn/|title=Learn|website=Migration Museum|language=en-AU|access-date=2019-05-18}}</ref> A memorial wall at the museum reflects an acknowledgement of the various communities who have sought refuge in Australia, while Settlement Square portrays the arrival of many families and individual settlers and a Reconciliation Plaque notes that the land on which the museum is built was first occupied by the Kaurna people.<ref>History Trust of South Australia, ''Migration Museum Adelaide: You're welcome''</ref>
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==Gallery== {{Gallery |title = |File:Migration Museum, Adelaide - entrance.JPG|alt1=Migration Museum entrance|The entrance to the Migration Museum |File:Migration Museum, Adelaide - former Destitute Asylum building.JPG|alt2=former Destitute Asylum building|The former Destitute Asylum building |File:Migration Museum - Latvian.JPG|alt3=Latvian cultural event|Opening of a Latvian cultural display at the Migration Museum in 2006 }}
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Category:Museums in Adelaide Category:History museums in Australia Category:Museums of human migration Category:Adelaide Park Lands