The first major post-war wave of migration started with displaced persons. These people had fled their countries of birth due to war, dislocation…

By 1929 the world economy began to slow. Rural product prices were falling and farmers found it hard to sell their produce overseas. In the cities, businesses found it harder…

Discover the Race to the Australian Goldfields board game c.1850s where travellers race to get bags of gold – or fail in the Australian gold rush.

Discover the 12 string electric guitar Harry Vanda played with the Easybeats during their heyday. The Easybeats are regarded as Australia’s greatest pop band from the 1960s and formed from a group of migrant teenagers living at the Villawood Migrant Hostel.

Discover the Friendship Stick made by Gavin Flick, Alanna Rose and Jai Rose for the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Discover the convict love token made for Thomas Tilley a convict on the First Fleet.

Discover the Louis Bleriot airplane, made by Bleriot Aeronautique, Levallois, Paris, France, 1914. It was flown by Maurice Guillaux with the first Australian airmail from Melbourne to Sydney in 1914.

The flute has historic value as evidence of one of the earliest musical instrument dealers known to have operated in Sydney from his arrival in the colony in 1832 until his death in 1854.

The zither has historic significance as evidence of post World War 2 refugee migration to Australia and the traumatic experience of dislocation and separation from family.

Discover the Gold Miner’s Licence from the 1850s. Miner’s licences were hated by the diggers and this with other antagonisms with the government and police led to the famous Eureka Rebellion of 1854.