![Johann and Katharina Emmelhainz on the Beulah passenger list, 1849. Courtesy NSW State Archives Reel 2145, [4/4820].](/-/media/anmm/images/blog/3-johann-and-katharina-emmelhainz_2160x1080.jpg?la=en)
Vinedressers and vintners
04 Apr 2019
On 4 April 1849, the three-masted bounty ship Beulah arrived in Sydney with 180 immigrants from the heart of German wine country.
Remembering the Irish famine orphans
17 Mar 2019
Today some 80 million people worldwide claim Irish ancestry, including an estimated seven million Australians. For St Patrick’s Day, we take a look at the story of the destitute Irish orphans who arrived in Australia 170 years ago at the height of the Great Famine.
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Threads of migration
26 Jan 2019
Textiles are an evocative symbol of migration, memory and cultural identity. Our new roof projection, Threads of migration, illuminates the museum’s rooftop with a rich patchwork of immigrant stories.
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Celebrating 20 years of the Welcome Wall
24 Jan 2019
On 24 January 1999, the first 3,000 names were officially unveiled on the museum’s Welcome Wall.
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Anatolia to Australia
23 Jan 2019
Turkish migrant¸ Sükran Adasal was just 19 years old when she and her husband Halit embarked on a belated honeymoon to an island continent on the other side of the world. Travelling under the Australia–Turkey Migration Agreement, the young couple’s thoughts were filled with hope for a new future.
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The case of Mrs O’Keefe
22 Jan 2019
In the 1940s, a Dutch East Indies family who had been evacuated to Australia during World War II found themselves under threat of deportation. The infamous court case that ensued was an important step towards overturning controversial legislation banning non-European immigrants.
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The Gocks of Middle Mountain
21 Jan 2019
Paul Kwok belongs to the 25th generation of a family that can trace its ancestry back to the early 13th century, before the Mongolian leader Kublai Khan founded the Yuan dynasty and conquered China. Paul registered his grandfather, Gock Quay, on the Welcome Wall to honour the first member of his family to set foot in Australia in 1890.
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The Barnardo boy from Liverpool
20 Jan 2019
During the 20th century, thousands of unaccompanied British children were sent to far-flung parts of the Commonwealth as part of government-sponsored child migration schemes. One of these was Jim Stone, whose childhood hardships in a farm training institution did not prevent him from coming to love his adopted country.
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To Australia via the Cape
19 Jan 2019
Teenaged sweethearts Klaas and Aafke Woldring have been together for more than 60 years, with their union taking them from the Netherlands to Australia via South Africa and Zambia.
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