Resources

AOM Documents

Significance Assessment report 2019

Preservation Needs Assessment report 2020

AOM Publications

Our Lives, Our Stories: Geelong Care Leavers Talking Back to Their Records (2023). Exhibition Booklet. Dates: 6 June to late 2023

Recommended Reading

Joanna Penglase (2008), Orphans of the Living: Growing Up in ‘Care’ in Twentieth-century Australia.

Dee Michell (2013), The CLAN National Orphanage Museum.

Adam Spencer (2019), Remembering the Horrors of Australia’s Orphanages, Bay 93.9

The Australian Orphanage Museum in Geelong, Australia, is a unique museum dedicated to documenting and exhibiting authentic social histories about the experience of growing up in orphanages, children’s Homes, Missions and other institutions, including foster care, in Australia.