Resource

Creator

National Museum of Australia

Title

Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions

Type of Work

Blog

Imprint

Australian Government, February 2010

Url

https://insideblog.nma.gov.au/

Description

Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions is a blog based on personal histories of the Forgotten Australians, Former Child Migrants and all those who experienced institutional care as children. It was created to provide a space for the voices of those who were inside and a chance for others to understand.

This blog was part of the development of the Inside exhibition and the stories, photos, artwork, poems, songs, articles and comments posted on it formed part of the exhibition. Both of these projects were funded by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, as part of the Forgotten Australians: Our History project. Inside was exhibited at the National Museum of Australia from November 2011 until February 2012.

Comments on this blog are now closed but the site is a permanent feature of the National Museum of Australia's main website.

Related Publications

hasPart

• Durant (nee Green), Carmel, 'Our Story', in Inside: Children's Homes, National Museum of Australia, Australian Government, 2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20180306142238/http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/03/05/our-story/. Details
• Lyon, Junita, 'A chilling account', in Inside: Life in Children's Homes, National Museum of Australia, Australian Government, 1 March 2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20180311190555/http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/03/01/a-chilling-account/. Details
• Mancuso, Diane, 'Billy Billy', in Inside: Life in Children's Homes, National Museum of Australia, Australian Government, 5 September 2011, http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/115906/20111007-0000/nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/09/05/billy-billy/index.html. Details
• 'Photos', in Inside: Life in Children's Homes, National Museum of Australia, Australian Government, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20180514122103/http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/collecting/photos/. Details
• Robb, Wilma, 'Hay Institution for Girls', in Inside: Life in Children's Homes, National Museum of Australia, Australian Government, 20 May 2010, https://web.archive.org/web/20180311190332/http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2010/05/20/hay-institution-for-girls/. Details
• Wardman, Rhonda, ''You are the spawn of the devil'', in Inside: Life in Children's Homes, 2011, https://web.archive.org/web/20180421012943/http://nma.gov.au/blogs/inside/2011/02/01/you-are-the-spawn-of-the-devil/. Details

isReferencedBy

• Chynoweth, Adele, 'Let our histories be visible': Human rights museology and the National Museum of Australia's Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions, Recollections, vol. 7, 2012, http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/volume_7_number_1/commentary/let_our_histories_be_visible. Details
• National Museum of Australia; National Library of Australia, Forgotten Australians: Our History, Australian Government, 2009, http://forgottenaustralianshistory.gov.au/index.html. Details