One State, many languagesArticle | Updated 6 years ago Karla, Noongar for Home. WA Museum The New Museum will share stories from all over Western Australia, focusing on the many communities and cultures that make up our State. We are encouraging people to share stories in the way they would like them told, and in the language that is important to them. To highlight the importance of diverse languages we partnered with the Office of Multicultural Interests (OMI) to create a video and language resource kit for Languages Week 2018. Both these resources will be used in the New Museum Voices gallery. We interviewed 11 participants from a range of cultural backgrounds who shared stories about their language, family, culture, food and sense of belonging. They spoke to us about why it’s important to maintain language, and how expressing themselves in their native language is often more natural than thinking and expressing in English. They also shared some words from their native language about love, home and belonging. You can explore the videos and learning kit on our website and the Office of Multicultural Interests website.