Maritime History Immigration and Migration Collection

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The Maritime History department maintains an extensive Immigration Collection that documents maritime immigration into Western Australia.

This collection includes artefacts such as: documents, on board images, clothes, shipboard newsletters, posters and postcards of ports visited during the voyage, crossing the line certificates, menus, tableware, table and bathroom linen, memorabilia, personal souvenirs, commercially produced souvenirs, cabin luggage, trunks and suitcases and shipboard games.

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The Immigration collections must have strong provenance identifying the people associated with an artefact, document or image, the ship they travelled on, and when they travelled, etc.

The artefact needs to be supported with a history of the migration experience, who came, why, and their memory of the voyage. The donation must also be supported by images taken before, during and after the voyage that may be copied by the Maritime History Department for future use by the Museum in exhibitions and related promotional publications

Collection contact

Contact: Maritime.History@museum.wa.gov.au

Sally May
Head of Department
Phone: (08) 9431 8477
Fax: (08) 9431 8490
Mobile: 0409 431 844

Michael Gregg
Image Collection Manager
Phone: (08) 9431 8456
Fax: (08) 9431 8490

Bill Leonard
Boat Collection Manager
Phone : (08) 9431 8383
Fax: (08) 9431 8490

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