Sunday, November 20, 2011

New Exhibition - National Museum of Australia

Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions

On show from 16 November 2011 to 26 February 2012
Studio Gallery, National Museum of Australia
Free


Inside features the words, voices and objects of the Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants and those who experienced institutional care as children.
About half a million children spent time in Children's Homes and institutions, mostly run by state governments, charities and churches from the 1920s to the 1980s.
Inside examines how children were committed to 'care', what it was like to grow up on the inside, life on the outside and reactions to the Australian Government's 2009 National Apology to Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants.