A Ticket to Paradise?

Touring Exhibition

Fri 8 Mar 2019Sun 19 May 2019

9:30am5:00pm

WA Shipwrecks Museum


A Greek girl, sent across the world to marry a man she’d never met; an African journalist fleeing for his life; and a stateless baby born in India to Iranian parents.

These are just some of the human stories that feature in A Ticket to Paradise?

Touring from the National Archives of Australia, this exhibition examines the diversity of Australian immigrants and the government’s ambitious plans after World War II to encourage mass migration.

A Ticket to Paradise? reveals the human aspect of migration through recordings of new and archival personal accounts. These stories provide an insight into the rich, complex and very different experiences of the migrants and refugees who have settled here, and the promotional campaigns that persuaded them to come.

This is a free exhibition.

Education Resources

Visiting with an education group? Make use of the National Archives of Australia Educator's Kit [external link] and Student Postcards [external link].


A national touring exhibition developed and presented by the National Archives of Australia.

This exhibition tour is supported by the Department of Home Affairs.

Exhibition development was supported by the Department of Communications and the Arts through Visions of Australia and the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach Program.


Feature Image: Brian Jonmundsson and his wife Visitacion arrive in Sydney, 1963. NAA: A12111, 1/1963/4/41


Caption: Brian Jonmundsson and his wife Visitacion arrive in Sydney, 1963. NAA: A12111, 1/1963/4/41

Image courtesy National Archives of Australia