The cane knife is historically significant as evidence of the manual labour of the many South Sea Islanders, Indians and migrants from Europe who were the backbone of the sugar industry in northern NSW.

The spaghetti maker and dolls are historically significant as evidence of migrant folk art transplanted from Italy to the Fairfield in the suburbs of Sydney.

The collection consists of personal ephemera brought to Australia by Italian Women chain migrating to Australia between 1920 and the 1970s.

The Greg Ritchie Negative Collection is a collection of over 3000 negatives featuring buildings and other sites in the City of Canterbury. Between 1990 and 1998 Canterbury City Council staff documented their day-to-day duties through photographs.

The Villawood Migrant Hostel recipe books and dining equipment are historically significant as evidence of the daily ritual of communal dining at the Hostel from 1948 until the mid 1980s.

The spaghetti maker and dolls are historically significant as evidence of migrant folk art transplanted from Italy to the Fairfield in the suburbs of Sydney.

The Bier stein and eisstock game piece are social and culturally significant. The German-Austrian Society of Australia Club was formed to assist Post World War II migrants to resettle into suburban Fairfield community life between 1945 and 1960, and fulfil an important social and cultural role in an alienating culture.

This collection of implements have historical and technological significance as they demonstrate the skills of ‘making do’ – improvising and modifying tools to make the heavy work of cultivating bananas easier.

The butter churn and pat have historic and technological significance as they demonstrate the labour intensive nature of early dairying and butter making and the impact that technological developments such as the cream separator and butter churn and improvements in rail and road transport had on the industry.

The cake maker has historical value as evidence of the economic transformation that swept over the suburbs of Sydney in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The cane knife is historically significant as evidence of the manual labour of the many South Sea Islanders, Indians and migrants from Europe who were the backbone of the sugar industry in northern NSW.

The milk jug is historically significant becasue of its association with the Greek owned Civic Café in Murwillumbah

Syrup dispenser and Cash register from the Tweed Fruit Exchange, Murwillumbah.

Discover the Jirin and Medaha that was handmade by Joseph John Isaac in 1938. The Jirin and Medaha were used to make ‘Kibee’ a traditional Lebanese dish.

This stove is of historic significance as a symbol of achievement, reflecting a high point in the early struggles of an economically impoverished migrant family from the Griffith area.

The carrot washer has high social significance to the Italian community of the Griffith area as a significant piece of industrial heritage of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area

The tokens are a significant marker of a comparatively short historical phase of liquor licensing laws and of the colourful role of Italian social clubs important to Griffith Italian life.

Discover the Wing Hing Long & Co store collection. The collection is significant because of its association with a NSW rural general store, Chinese migration and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1901.

View the Jindera Pioneer Museum’s kitchen draining board associated with the local German community.

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

Discover the grape press from Griffith that was used by the local community to extract juice from grapes to make wine c.1950s.

The set of cow horn funnels is significant for its association with the settlement of the Lockhart/Milbrulong area of the Riverina by German farming families.

Discover soft drink bottles from Bill Haberecht’s AVOR Quality Products Collection at the Museum of the Riverina.