Background to the Early Collections
\nMuseum Victoria holds a modest but significant collection of material relating to the policies, processes and personal experiences of migration to Australia, and particularly Victoria, from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Artefacts include letters, diaries, promotional publications, photographs and personal artefacts which can provide researchers interested in this subject with a rich and well-documented resource - and with the layer of personal connections not often associated with similar items in libraries and archives.
\nThere are stories from English, Scottish, Irish, Italian and German nineteenth century migrants, and Chinese and Japanese narratives from the late nineteenth century which help to trace generations of subsequent family stories, despite the 1901 Immigration Restriction Act. There are also stories of English, Italian, Greek, German, Albanian, Bulgarian, and Scottish migrants from the early twentieth century which collective demonstrate the cultural diversity of Australia's migration history well before the post-World War II migration boom.
\nThese varied narratives represent urban and rural settlement, assisted and non-assisted migrants, people of multi-faith backgrounds, solitary migrants and families, chain migration, return migration, prisoners-of-war and internees. The material also relates to the processes of migration from application to departure and includes details of voyages by ship and plane; personal belongings brought, created and purchased; luggage; items of work, domesticity and artistry; objects for maintaining connections to homelands; documentaries of migrant life through writings, film and photographs and community and organisational experiences.
\n\nIt is essential that these stories are understood within the context of colonisation, which resulted in the dispossession, death, child removal and systematic disruption of language, culture and connections to Country for First Peoples. \n\nFor more information about the Museum's nineteenth and early twentieth century collections, refer to the curatorial essay: 'Collecting Narratives of Migration: Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Collections at Museum Victoria, Melbourne' which can be accessed under the Associated Downloads section.
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After residing in Latina, a small Italian town near Rome, they travelled from Italy to Australia aboard the Italian ship Galileo. After travelling along the western coast of Africa with a stop in South Africa, they headed to Fremantle Port then docked at Port Melbourne in 1970. \n\nIsmet Goga soon met Albanian friends from Montenegro who were already settled in Melbourne. They helped Ismet and his family to find accommodation as well as employment. They lived near Port Melbourne from 1970 to 1973. Ismet worked for 20 years for a paper mill producing and recycling papers owned by the Smorgan family. Hajrija worked for the Kraft cheese production company. 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As the Ottoman Empire grew, the tradition spread, evolving and adapting according to local customs, languages and stories. Turkish shadow puppet theatre was part of the artistic tradition of the diverse cultures of the Ottoman Empire, including people of Greek, Jewish, Albanian, Turkish and Arabic backgrounds. Within the framework of that diverse society, Karaghiozis stopped being exclusively Turkish and became transnational and multilingual and was instrumental in keeping languages, folklore and cultural traditions alive as artistic traditions became increasing lost and suppressed.
\nAccording to popular legend the two principal characters were modelled on two Turkish labourers, Karagoz and Hacivad, who lived during the 14th century. Their continual comic arguments on a mosque construction site halted work and the enraged sultan ordered their execution. He regretted his decision and a Turkish puppet master made shadow figures of Karagoz and Hacivad and his performance imitated the voices and mannerisms of the workmen and delighted the sultan. This was the beginning of the Karagoz puppet tradition.
\nFrom the 17th century through to the first decade of the 20th century, Karagoz - Karaghiozis in Greece - became the leading player in the shadow theatres of the regions. Audiences were varied - from royalty to middle class families to uneducated workers. Puppeteers usually worked from scenarios rather than finished scripts so that they could adapt storylines according to the audience.
\nGreece adopted the shadow puppet theatre with gusto and created a form all its own, although there are only a handful of puppet masters left worldwide. The Greek shadow puppet theatre became a vital way for Greeks to see, hear and maintain their cultural and artistic traditions. It is still active today. The moral tales enacted by the puppeteers feature satirical observations about the social and political issues of the time - a form of social commentary understood by people of all classes. The central character is Karaghiozis. The Greek Karaghiozis is wiser and less of a clown than Karagoz, his Turkish brother. He is poor and uneducated, relying on his cunning and ready wit to extricate himself from precarious situations. He is a Greek folk hero for children and adults. Karaghiozis often mocks the various characters and includes them in his desperate adventures. He also pays them shameless compliments in order to avoid being harassed. Although totally uneducated, Karaghiozis manages to bluff his way into different jobs, allowing the puppeteer to satirise prominent figures, professions and contemporary issues.
\nThe puppet show is usually accompanied by a small group of musicians and a singer, and much shouting and noise and witty dialogue keep the audience laughing. While the plots are familiar, the puppeteer addresses topical issues with impromptu wise cracks, observations and even bawdy repartee. Representations of Turkish and Jewish people can be unflattering, even prejudiced. The puppets are traditionally made from translucent donkey or camel skin but in more recent decades, puppeteers have used clear brushed acrylic to make their puppets. They are cut and dyed so the shadow on the screen creates a stained glass window effect. The puppeteer manipulates the puppets using detachable rods. The multiple joints also allow the puppets to jiggle, dance and make gestures.
References:Eljam Bardi is an Albanian Muslim who migrated to Australia from Macedonia in 1982 after receiving an invitation from the Albanian Muslim community in Shepparton. He came from Cairo, Egypt, where he had finished his study in Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia law) at the well-renowned Al-Azhar University. Upon arrival at the Melbourne airport, he was welcomed by the President and Secretary of the Albanian Islamic Community of Shepparton and some representatives of the Albanian Carlton Muslim community. He remembers 'It was a warm welcome!'
\nAfter his arrival in Shepparton, located 190 km north of Melbourne, Eljam met multiple generations of Albanians. The first Albanians in Shepparton had settled in 1924. Eljam recalls: 'I found Albanians that were generous, trusty and sincere people. Usually, they gathered at the mosque. In Shepparton I also met my future wife, Salie.'
\nFor nearly 40 years, Eljam Bardi has been the Imam of the Albanian mosque in Shepparton which is the oldest mosque in Victoria, built in 1960 and spiritual leader of the well-established Albanian Muslim community there. The mosque is also open to members of other Muslim ethnic groups. Eljam considers the period between the early 1980s and the late 1990s as a 'golden time of our community development,' but the Albanian Muslim community remains strong. During the Friday congregation about 250-300 people gather at the mosque. Eljam states: 'the mosque is opened each day for 24 hours and it has never had a problem - I am very proud of that fact'.
\nImam Bardi is teaching a religious subject on Islam in three of Shepparton's primary schools as well as at the Shepparton High School. He is a member of the Board of Imams in Victoria. From time to time, Eljam provides religious services for Albanian and other Muslim communities in various places such as Melbourne, Lilydale, Mildura, Warrnambool, Wodonga and Albury. On a couple of occasions, he travelled to Brisbane and Mareeba where he discovered a longstanding Albanian Muslim community. After visiting these communities he stated: 'I am happy to see Muslim people, including Albanians, attached to this country. They are Australians too'.
\nOver time, the Shepparton population has diversified - there are migrants from many countries across Europe, Asia and Africa. Eljam is actively involved in Shepparton's interfaith network, and together with his Australian-born friends, Muslims in Shepparton contribute to striving for social cohesion and inter-religious harmony. Eljam states, 'It is always important to maintain good contacts with neighbours.' Albanians in Shepparton through various activities cooperate with residents from different backgrounds but also with local institutions, such as the local council. The Albanian Muslim community organises Eid festivals and traditional Albanian National Day celebrations, and the popular Albanian Harvest Fruit festivals where Albanian farmers, and community members, take their part in offering locally grown fruits and vegetables followed by traditional Albanian music and folk dance. They are also engaged with culturally diverse groups in local multicultural festivals.
\nDeveloped drawing on Dzavid Haveric's interview with Eljam Bardi, 2017.
","contentSummary":null,"types":["Historical Narrative"],"authors":[{"firstName":"Dzavid","lastName":"Haveric","fullName":"Dzavid Haveric","biography":null,"profileImage":null}],"contributors":[],"media":[{"type":"image","alternativeText":"Seated man reading.","large":{"width":2250,"height":3000,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/27/1226227-large.jpg","size":1006031},"medium":{"width":1125,"height":1500,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/27/1226227-medium.jpg","size":211039},"small":{"width":375,"height":500,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/27/1226227-small.jpg","size":29156},"thumbnail":{"width":250,"height":250,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/27/1226227-thumbnail.jpg","size":9792},"id":"media/1226227","dateModified":"2025-10-20T03:12:00Z","caption":"Digital Photograph - Eljam Bardi At Home, Shepparton, 2018","creators":["Unknown photographer"],"sources":["Museums Victoria"],"credit":null,"rightsStatement":"Copyright Emine Bardi / All Rights Reserved","licence":{"name":"All Rights Reserved","shortName":"All Rights Reserved","uri":""}}],"yearWritten":"2019","parentArticleId":"articles/16673","childArticleIds":[],"relatedArticleIds":["articles/16628"],"relatedItemIds":["items/2278334","items/2342022","items/2278331","items/2278325","items/2278328","items/2278332","items/2278329","items/2278333"],"relatedSpecimenIds":[],"id":"articles/16676"},{"recordType":"article","licence":{"name":"Attribution 4.0 International","shortName":"CC BY","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"dateModified":"2023-02-08T23:54:00Z","title":"Nebihat Div & Wilson Shkembi - Albania Migrants, 1980","displayTitle":"Nebihat Div & Wilson Shkembi - Albania Migrants, 1980","keywords":["Migration & Settlement","Muslim Immigration"],"localities":[],"content":"Before settling in Melbourne in 1980, the Albanian Muslims, Nebihat and Wilson, lived in Christchurch (New Zealand). Nebihat went to New Zealand in 1964 when she married Wilson Shkembi, an Albanian Muslim from Korce in Albania. She was originally from Pristina, the capital city of Kosovo. Her husband Wilson, as a single man, left Albania for Greece and then came to Christchurch (New Zealand) in 1956. When he arrived in Christchurch he did not meet any Muslims, except a few single Albanians with whom he rented and shared a house while working. In the late 1950s they together bought a house adapting it into a masjid. It was largely forgotten that it was the first established mosque there. The Shkembi family celebrated Eid only within their family as there was no Muslim community. Soon they would buy a block of land for Islamic burials.
\nWhile living in Christchurch, Wilson had correspondence with Albanians in Melbourne, receiving their letters and informing him that there was the Albanian Muslim community in Victoria. When they moved to Melbourne there were a few hundred Albanian Muslims from Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania. They found Albanian mosques in Carlton and Shepparton. Wilson went regularly to the mosque and was a respectful member of the community. By visiting community places, they also met Bosnian and Turkish Muslims in Victoria.
\nPrior to migrating to Australia, Nebihat spent six years in Türkiye (formerly Turkey), working in the City Council of Izmir. Her father spoke the Osmanli language in Kosovo, and while she worked in Türkiye, she also learned the Turkish language. Speaking Turkish helped her in conversation with Turkish migrants in Victoria that she met.
\nThey enjoyed their life in Melbourne, especially within the Albanian community. While raising their children, they always considered Islam as an important part of their Albanian and Australian-Muslim identity. Wilson and Nebihat supported the education of their children, but maintained that home education was the most important form. By attending Islamic festivals, sharing traditional Albanian food with the Albanian community members, and introducing it to the neighbourhood of various backgrounds, they were able to build cherished friendships.
\nBased on Dzavid Haveric's interview with Nebihat Shkembi, 2017.
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\nIn the mid 1960s, Ohrid was struck by a major flood. When locals went to the mosque to help clean up the debris, they discovered a large number of qur'ans under the floorboards, where they had been hidden for fear of destruction during the communist regime. The Silvi Xhami was one of the last surviving mosques in Ohrid as the others had been demolished by the authorities. However before these prayer books were confiscated by the local authorities and probably destroyed, this one was secreted away and hidden by local resident Lufti Lloga. Lufti had become a 'muezzin' (one who calls the faithful to prayer) in his later years and recognised the cultural and religious value of this qur'an.
\nHe brought the qur'an to Australia in the early 1970s when he came to visit his son Erik who had migrated to Australia from Albania in 1969. When Erik was growing up his family had both Islamic and Catholic elements, although his immediate family were not practising, so he grew up around both mosques and churches. Erik had been unable to return to Albania to visit his family as he was avoiding imprisonment for not undertaking compulsory military training. Lufti was keen for Erik to 'save' the qur'an and the cultural traditions it represented, at a time when such traditions were under threat in many eastern bloc states.
\nIn the late 1990s Erik donated the qur'an to the Shepparton Muslim Society in celebration of the opening of a community centre extension to the first Albanian mosque in Victoria. The Society stored the qur'an, although they never used it, before offering it to Museum Victoria.
\nThe Ottoman empire occupied the lands now known as Albania from 1481 to 1912. In the early seventeenth century, large numbers of Albanians converted to Islam and by the eighteenth century the Albanian Muslim community was the largest religious group in Albania. The qur'an was probably created during this period. The Albanian lands united as an independent nation in 1912 after a series of bloody rebellions against their Ottoman rulers. Barely independent, Albania became embroiled in the Balkan wars and emerged in 1913 after the Treaty of Bucharest with borders excluding lands with large Albanian populations, such as Kosovo and western Macedonia where the town of Ohrid is located.
\nItaly invaded Albania in 1939 and began a process of Italianisation, including the banning of the Albanian language. The Italian occupation ended when Nazi Germany invaded in 1943. The Albanian Communist party was formed in 1941 and was instrumental in defeating the Nazi German occupation forces in 1944. The Communist Party suppressed all religious observance and remained in power in various forms until 1992.
\nThe town of Ohrid was listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1980.
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\nThey lived in a house on their farm in east Shepparton sharing the house with Salie's uncle, while another uncle and his family lived next door. 'We basically lived as an extended family,' recalls Salie: 'My mum was a housewife. She made clothes and food for us she learned English from the newspapers, TV and radio. My father was a hardworking farmer. He grew tomatoes and put them into cases and sold to the Tom Piper Company. There was lots of green grass but sometimes dry seasons and floods. We pumped the water from the local river for irrigating father's farm of 156 acres. We had fruit trees - apples, peaches, apricots.'
\nSalie remembers a 'few bits and pieces' of her childhood. She never felt lonely. She liked to play with animals. Her parents on the farm also had sheep, cows and 2-3 working horses. There were lots of cats running and jumping on the farm. She states: 'I wasn't scared of animals - I caught spiders, butterflies, even a baby snake I kept in a jar which I found under our timber house - but my mum was so scared of this...I went to Shepparton School. My father always told me that \"at home you speak Albanian while outside English\" - it was like a rule'.
\nIn 1981 Salie attended a six-month self-development course in Shepparton. It was part of a course called the 'Education Program for Unemployed Youth' (EPUY). This program included demonstrating making food from local farms to the urban people in Bourke Street Melbourne. The aim was for youth from regional Victoria to show city people what the youth of Shepparton can do for the community. Soon this program was broadcast on TV news. Shortly after, Salie received an offer to work at the 'Shepparton News', a local newspaper.
\nWorking there as the assistant of a proof-reader, she was asked by a colleague to read an article about the arrival of migrants in Shepparton in which it reported that an Imam, Eljam Bardi, was coming to work at the Shepparton mosque. This colleague encouraged her to meet the Imam. But, Salie told him, 'I am not so religious and it seemed for me almost funny to meet him'. However, life is sometime full of surprises, said Salie: 'After only seven days, I got married to that imam. We have three children - I became a wife and mum - all in one'.
\nSalie worked for 20 years as an Albanian interpreter for the Albanian community. Then, she continued to work in primary and secondary schools, including the Catholic Secondary School in Shepparton. Salie also enjoys her hobbies: craft, cooking and watching movies.
\nBased on Dzavid Haveric's interview with Salie Bardi 2018.
","contentSummary":"Salie Bardi was born in Shepparton. Her mother Sadet, an Albanian, was originally from Bitola a town in Macedonia and her father Hetem was from Porodine near Korce in Albania. Her father migrated to Australia in the 1930s and her mother in the 1950s.","types":["Historical Narrative"],"authors":[{"firstName":"Dzavid","lastName":"Haveric","fullName":"Dzavid Haveric","biography":null,"profileImage":null}],"contributors":[],"media":[{"type":"image","alternativeText":"Three men hold full sacks of apples, two children stand in front.","large":{"width":3000,"height":2390,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/4/1147804-large.jpg","size":803294},"medium":{"width":1500,"height":1195,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/4/1147804-medium.jpg","size":192932},"small":{"width":628,"height":500,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/4/1147804-small.jpg","size":52951},"thumbnail":{"width":250,"height":250,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/4/1147804-thumbnail.jpg","size":13489},"id":"media/1147804","dateModified":"2023-06-06T12:29:00Z","caption":"Qemal Family, Shepparton, 1968","creators":["Unknown photographer"],"sources":["Museums Victoria"],"credit":null,"rightsStatement":"Copyright Salie Bardi / All Rights Reserved","licence":{"name":"All Rights Reserved","shortName":"All Rights Reserved","uri":""}}],"yearWritten":"2019","parentArticleId":"articles/16673","childArticleIds":[],"relatedArticleIds":["articles/16676"],"relatedItemIds":["items/2278334","items/2278331","items/2278325","items/2278328","items/2278332","items/2278329","items/2278333","items/2342022"],"relatedSpecimenIds":[],"id":"articles/16628"},{"recordType":"article","licence":{"name":"Attribution 4.0 International","shortName":"CC BY","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"dateModified":"2019-08-07T23:24:00Z","title":"Ismet Goga - Albania Migrant, 1970","displayTitle":"Ismet Goga - Albania Migrant, 1970","keywords":["Migration & Settlement","Muslim Immigration"],"localities":[],"content":"Ismet Goga, his wife Hajrija and an almost one year old son Vahid are Albanians from Montenegro. After residing in a small Italian town, Latina, near Rome, they travelled from Italy to Australia on the Italian ship 'Galileo'. After travelling along the western coast of Africa with a stop in South Africa, they headed to Fremantle Port then finally docked at Port Melbourne in 1970. The date of their arrival also happened to be their son's first birthday. It was a moving experience the day when they reached Australia. Ismet recalls: 'we dreamed about it and our dream was turned into reality'.
\nHe continues: 'Leaving my family and homeland was very difficult and the thirty day voyage from Italy to Australia amplified these feelings. However, my wife and I were very excited when our ship finally docked in Port Melbourne and we were extremely happy to be greeted by the family friends from Ulqin (Montenegro).'
\nSettling in Melbourne with their new born family member the son, Vahid, they began to build their life in Australia. Ismet reflects: 'Having no knowledge of the new environment, nor the English language, posed some significant challenges, however I was determined to start my new life in Australia and through the help and support of the small Albanian community from my homeland, we were able to settle in quickly by way of finding a residence, as well as employment to support my family in Australia.'
\nIsmet soon met Albanian friends from his hometown in Montenegro who were already settled in Melbourne. They helped Ismet and his family to find an accommodation as well as employment. Ismet worked for the Smorgan company, a paper mill producing and recycling papers. He worked there for 20 years. Hajrija also worked for Kraft in the cheese production company. Their second son, Mirsad, was born in Melbourne. Ismet Hajrija and Vahid lived near Port Melbourne from 1970 to 1973.
\nAfter settling in Melbourne, the family would go on outings with friends to local parks and the Botanical Gardens. They attended their first Moomba parade in 1970 and also visited Melbourne Zoo. When there were Eid celebrations (Islamic festivals) or jenaza (burial service) the Goga family often travelled to Shepparton where the first mosque in Victoria was built and there they met an old Albanian Muslim community. Living in Melbourne they were attached to the Albanian Mosque in Carlton and the growing Albanian Muslim community in Melbourne.
\nBased on Dzavid Haveric's interview with Vahid Goga, 2017.
","contentSummary":"Ismet Goga, his wife Hajrija and young son Vahid are Albanians from Montenegro who migrated to Melbourne, Australia from Italy in 1970.","types":["Historical Narrative"],"authors":[{"firstName":"Dzavid","lastName":"Haveric","fullName":"Dzavid Haveric","biography":null,"profileImage":null}],"contributors":[],"media":[{"type":"image","alternativeText":null,"large":{"width":3000,"height":2005,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/46/1147796-large.jpg","size":696182},"medium":{"width":1500,"height":1002,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/46/1147796-medium.jpg","size":158872},"small":{"width":748,"height":500,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/46/1147796-small.jpg","size":60692},"thumbnail":{"width":250,"height":250,"uri":"https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/46/1147796-thumbnail.jpg","size":14446},"id":"media/1147796","dateModified":"2023-06-06T12:32:00Z","caption":"Ismet Goga, Hajrija Goga and Vahid Goga, Moomba Parade, Melbourne, 1970","creators":["Unknown photographer"],"sources":["Museums Victoria"],"credit":null,"rightsStatement":"Copyright Vahid Goga / All Rights Reserved","licence":{"name":"All Rights Reserved","shortName":"All Rights Reserved","uri":""}}],"yearWritten":"2019","parentArticleId":"articles/16673","childArticleIds":[],"relatedArticleIds":[],"relatedItemIds":["items/2278284","items/2278298","items/2278297","items/2278296","items/2278322"],"relatedSpecimenIds":[],"id":"articles/16629"},{"recordType":"item","comments":[],"licence":{"name":"Attribution 4.0 International","shortName":"CC BY","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"dateModified":"2024-12-16T23:32:00Z","displayTitle":"Digital Photograph - Ismet, Hajrija, Vahid & Mirsad Goga Visiting Albanian Family in Port Melbourne, 1974","category":"History & Technology","discipline":"History","type":"Image","registrationNumber":"MM 147662","collectionNames":["Muslims in Australia Image Collection"],"collectingAreas":["Migration & Cultural Diversity","Images & Image Making"],"classifications":["Migration","Settlement - cultural & social life","Family portraits"],"objectName":"Digital Photograph - Ismet, Hajrija, Vahid & Mirsad Goga Visiting Albanian Family in Port Melbourne, 1974","objectSummary":"Colour digital photograph of Ismet, Hajrija, Vahid and Mirsad Goga visiting Albanian family in Port Melbourne, 1974\n\nAlbanian couple Ismet and Hajrija Goga and their almost one year old son Vahid, migrated to Australia in 1970 from Montenegro. After residing in Latina, a small Italian town near Rome, they travelled from Italy to Australia aboard the Italian ship Galileo. After travelling along the western coast of Africa with a stop in South Africa, they headed to Fremantle Port then docked at Port Melbourne in 1970. \n\nIsmet Goga soon met Albanian friends from Montenegro who were already settled in Melbourne. They helped Ismet and his family to find accommodation as well as employment. They lived near Port Melbourne from 1970 to 1973. Ismet worked for 20 years for a paper mill producing and recycling papers owned by the Smorgan family. Hajrija worked for the Kraft cheese production company. 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They migrated to Australia in 1964 and 1967, respectively, although they did not know each other at this time. They met in Melbourne and married in 1969 and had four daughters. In 1997 the family made an emotional journey back to Albania after the end of the communist regime.
\nDuring this visit the couple's daughters, Esmine and Lirije, purchased a traditional Albanian folk costume, which represents the long and rich heritage of the family's homeland and was a self conscious act of taking a tangible part of their cultural heritage back to Australia. The Memishi daughters wore the costume to the Albanian Festival at Footscray Park up until the mid 2000s.
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\nPandi lived with his brother and worked on his market garden until 1944 when it was decided that it was time for him to marry. Through his brother's business contacts he found a potential Albanian wife in Bagnoo near Wauchope about 40kms from Port Macquarie, New South Wales. A restricted travel pass enabled him to travel by train to Bagnoo to discuss the marriage prospect with the father of his potential bride, Artemissia Hari. Artemissia's father wanted her to marry someone of similar cultural and religious background.
\nThe couple met and Artemissia (born in 1922) agreed to the marriage as she was culturally expected to do. The Greek Orthodox wedding ceremony took place at the family farm house with a priest brought in from Sydney and Pandi wore the suit now in the Museum's collection. The couple honeymooned in Kempsey, New South Wales and then had to return to Shepparton before Pandi's pass expired.
\nThey lived with Pandi's brother for a year, then purchased adjoining land and had a house transported in from Benalla. They lived in this house until 1984 when they built a new house on the same land, although they retained the old house for sentimental reasons. Both houses have since been demolished. Pandi and Artemissia had five children, worked hard at their market gardens and orchard, which kept the children fed, clothed and the family wanted for nothing. The couple died within seven weeks of each other in 1995.
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Identity: yours, mine, ours explored who we are, who others think we are, and what it means to belong and not belong in Australia. The exhibition focused on how cultural heritage, languages, beliefs, and family connections have, and do, influence our self-perceptions and our perceptions of others. This can lead to discovery, confusion, prejudice and understanding.
\nEngaging personal stories, intriguing objects, compelling images, and interactive multimedia experiences invited visitors to find both expected and unexpected connections with others, as well as challenge the assumptions we make about each other every day.
\nThe exhibition encouraged visitors (both in the gallery and online) to share their stories, affirm their identities and celebrate diversity in our community.
\nThis exhibition offered an exciting opportunity to bring together and creatively interpret a diverse array of material culture that will often be unexpected in the context of the Immigration Museum. Popular culture, racist and anti-racist ephemera, religious and sporting items, First Peoples historical and contemporary cultural material, and an eclectic mix of artworks are all combined and interpreted to challenge visitors beyond the more conventional narratives of migration. Over 130 objects were drawn primarily from the Museum's History and Technology collections (including the Migration, Cultural Identity, and Numismatics collections). Community and institutional loans relating to particular personal stories are also included, including those exploring First Peoples experiences.
\nAn interactive display explored the theme of First Impressions and incorporated a small number of objects which have either symbolic resonance about diverse forms of visible identities or represent personal experiences of family connection and disconnection.
\nThe theme of Belonging drew upon museum and community objects to explore a variety of personal and collective experiences which cross time and culture - both in inter-cultural and cross-cultural ways. This theme was object rich and eclectic and placed artefacts together in unexpected ways. Moreover the focus on Creativity within this theme provided the opportunity to present a cornucopia of beautiful often thought-provoking artworks which all explore personal identity in ways unique to the experiences and chosen media of the artists. This case featured objects from the Museum's Immigration and Artistic Practice collection while also bringing in new works on loan or purchased by unrepresented communities. Short videos provided further insights into personal and community stories and the related objects, with cultural and faith representation including: Albanian Muslim, Irish, Brazilian, Caribbean, Scottish, Indian Sikh, Wotjobaluk, Naga, Jewish, Vietnamese, Sudanese, Latvian, German, Chinese, Christian Fijian, Greek, Japanese, and Wathaurong.
\nThe final theme of Difference used objects in very different and often confronting ways. A small number of objects provided material representations of theories and politics of race over time within the context of a strong graphic presentation and text-based historical narrative. These items ranged from an early magic lantern slide to an anti-racism protest badge. Another section drew on a familiar array of objects, including toys, games, clothing, advertising material and product packaging, to explore how popular culture has affected the creation and perpetuation of stereotypes and prejudice. Some of these items are clearly racist, while other more subtle objects consider the complexities of intention and interpretation according to the different viewpoints of the producer, target and consumer across time.
\nThis was a long-term exhibition and some objects were changed over time as new stories were represented and some objects that a more fragile items were removed from display and exchanged for new ones.
Both current and past Museums Victoria objects displayed in this exhibition are listed below.
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