Multicultural Banner

This banner was created as part of the Migration Museum’s Community Banners project 'Memories and Dreams' in 1986, the same year the Museum opened to the public. The project was instrumental in building some of early networks with South Australia’s culturally diverse communities. As a collection, the banners provide a record of how cultural communities in South Australia chose to represent their own past and their hopes for their future. A map of South Australia, in the colours of the Aboriginal flag, is surrounded by vertical stripes in many other colours. These represent the diverse communities that live in South Australia and are symbolic of the State's rich multicultural heritage.
Banner made with machine applique quilting. It has vertical strips of different coloured fabrics are overlapped and finished on lower edge where the outline shape of South Australia is sewn in black, red and yellow, the Aboriginal flag colours, against a green blue sea background which is horizontally quilted. Padded letters in green and blue spelling 'Multiculture' are sewn down one strip. It has a turquoise gusset along upper edge and is backed in turquoise and white fabric.