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.
