Exiles and Emigrants
Exiles and Emigrants: Epic Journeys to Australia in the Victorian Era is a National Gallery of Victoria touring exhibition on show in the National Museum of Australia's Temporary Exhibition Gallery from 21 April to 4 June 2006. Admission fees apply.
It tells the emotional stories of the greatest diaspora in Western history and is the first time art and objects produced in the reign of Queen Victoria have been used to tell the story of the unprecedented exodus of almost 15 million people from Britain between 1837 and 1901.
The exhibition traces the reasons that drove people from their homeland, their long and difficult voyages and their struggles to settle in the harsh and often unforgiving Australian climate.
This is the last opportunity to see the Exiles and Emigrants exhibition in Australia.
The exhibition has been generously supported by Tattersall's. Qantas is the support sponsor.
Banner graphic: Ford Madox Brown The Last of England 1855 (detail). Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham. Purchased 1891.
