The dollhouse has historic significance as evidence of post World War 2 refugee migration to Australia and the traumatic experience of dislocation and separation from family.
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Objects Through Time: toys
The miniature dolls furniture is a part of a wider collection of objects used by the internees that are integral to the fabric of the Trial Bay Gaol heritage site and provides the distinctive character of the place. Continue reading
Discover the dolls house made by a German merchant seaman interred at Berrima Internment Camp in 1915. Continue reading
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.
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