Read Pasquale Dogao’s Prisoner of War Identity Card from the Cowra camp, 1943.

See the bugle that Japanese prisoner of war TOYOSHIMA HAJIME used to signal the start of the mass escape of Japanese POWs from Cowra POW Camp in 1944.

This set of bocce balls is of historic significance as evidence of the transfer of a men’s social activity from Italy to Griffith, Australia.

The preserving pan is associated with the second phase of German farming and settlement in the Riverina and Australian domestic practice.

Discover the miner’s pick owned by Charlie Barker, miner, and the son of a Welsh coalminer.

The coins have historic value as evidence of the events that surround the internment of POWs in Australia in World War 2 and the experience of the refugees and POWs life at the Hay POW camp.

Discover the Japanese Himitsu-Bako puzzle box which was recovered from one of the Japanese midget submarines that was involved in the attack on Sydney Harbour on the night of 30-31 May 1942.

This collection of knitting machines and tools is of historic significance as a family craft of the Griffith area handed down from mother to daughter, that may be traced back to a sixteenth century tradition in Northern Italy.

This quilt has historical significance as one of the first Italian quilts to be documented in Australia.

Discover the diaries of Federico Bonisoli documenting his internment during World War II. The diaries Include Internment diaries (in Italian dated 1940-1944, letters in English received from his niece Maria Bonisoli and nephew Attilio Bonisoli between 1940-1943, a photograph of Federico Bonisoli, c.1939. and a letter in Italian to Felice Bonisoli from Rev. Professor M.F. Toal, an ex-internee of Loveday Camp dated 13 September 1956.