Online Exhibitions

Objects Through Time, an initiative of the NSW Migration Heritage Centre,[1] is an online exhibition about migration history and is built around migration heritage items sourced from many collections. The exhibition is in continual development and now has more than 130 items: each with a richly detailed statement of significance.

Click HERE to see an excerpt from an online statement of significance for Bungaree.

The online statement of significance conjures the complex relationship between Bungaree, the governors of NSW and the settlement of Sydney around the harbour.

Bungaree: King of the Aborigines of New South Wales, Augustus Earle, 1826

Lithograph

Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, after an original painting on display in the National Gallery of Australia from the collection of the National Library of Australia

Significance is at the heart of the collaborative work the Migration Heritage Centre brokers with its partners in the community and collecting organisations. The Centre’s work is assisting private owners and collecting organisations to research and document the stories and significance of items carried by migrants to Australia or related to migration and settlement. Projects include thematic studies, and the online exhibition Belongings, which explores migration memories and journeys after the Second World War.[2]

[1] Migration Heritage Centre—New South Wales, Objects through time, Migration Heritage Centre, Sydney (n.d.), viewed 15 March 2009, http://www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime.

[2] Migration Heritage Centre—New South Wales, Belongings: post-WW2 memories of migration, Migration Heritage Centre, Sydney (n.d.), viewed 15 March 2009, <http://www.belongings.com.au>.