10 Stories You Need to See in the Museum of Freedom and Tolerance Collection

The collection gives prominence to voices and stories by and for First Nations and multicultural communities, centralising them, increasing representation and challenging norms in relation to the broader narrative of what it means to be Australian today.

The collection is underpinned by six values - joy, hope, belonging, dignity, equality and freedom - and the stories within explore these values in both their full expression and their lack. It's through these stories, we invite our audience to consider and question their own relationship to these values, and responsibility to uphold them on behalf of others. 

Explore how Community Arts Network (CAN) - through one of their most popular and long-running workshops - is facilitating the continuation of doll-making as a healing arts practice with members of the Stolen Generation.

Simple, but full of love, each doll is a symbol of resilience and survival, their story providing us with insights into Mission life.  Find out more.

View contemporary Australia through the kaleidoscopic lens of Walmajarri artist John Prince Siddon, and read excerpts from Emilia Galatis' curatorial essay.

Artists Yi Xiao Chen and Osama Mah host workshops in which members of the public are invited to try their hand at painting Chinese and Arabic symbols - among others - onto the collected flora, much of which was collected from bushland near Chen's father's home.

Discover this tale of social cohesiveness, multiculturalism and community through the practice of hand painting.

Pakistani-Australian performance poet and producer Zainab Zahra Syed speaks of home: in place, in people and in herself. Her words lead us somewhere more vulnerable than we might otherwise live - somewhere we might think about our own versions of home and how they contribute to our identity; in turn, creating space for the identities of others.

In this exhibit, six artists respond to the horror of New Zealand's Christchurch Massacres by telling multicultural stories through contemporary jewellery to a global audience.

Zoom into their delicate designs and discover how their art practice holds and makes meaning for our collective identity.

Discover the sublime works of Walmajarri artist Sonia Kurarra - who lives in and creates art from her aged-care home in Fitzroy Crossing - through the eyes of adoring curator Emilia Galatis.

Kurarra's works are interspersed with words from Galatis' curatorial essay, in which the enduring friendship and mutual appreciation between artist and curator is explored with heart and humour. Read the Rivers of Consciousness story.

Explore the world of Evelyn Malgill, a modern artist and Traditional Owner working out of Warmun, Western Australia, whose work wrestles with tension between settler structures and traditional Country.

What is love? What is important to remember in life? What is a big idea? Hear what Western Australian children think love is, what they think of adults, and what they want for the future.