Exiles and Emigrants: How can a Museum exhibition help us explore our immigration history?

Topic: History, Studies of Society and Environment, English, Art
Type: Curriculum materials
Years: 8-12

Key Curriculum Links: Time, Continuity and Change; Culture; Natural and Social Systems; Investigation, Communication and Participation.

Uses British nineteenth century artworks to explore the immigration experience of people who sought to begin a new life in Australia. Provides a basis for students' own further explorations of immigration generally, their own family history, and a site study of a local museum's representation of the immigration experience.

The student activities included in this unit cover the following topics:

• Who migrated and why?
• Attitudes and expectations of the immigrants
• The experience of the voyage
• Arrival and outcomes
• How museums represent immigration in their displays
• A student's own immigration history

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