Albany Museum...

It is nearly 3 months since DH and I had our holiday in Western Australia...time has certainly flown! While we were in Albany we visited an exhibition at the museum. 

The museum precinct has lots of lovely old buildings...

And even a post box that dates back to the reign of Queen Victoria.

A friend had told me of a special exhibition that had opened at the museum which focused on Adoptions. 

Near the entry was a video of a former PM, Julia Gillard, and her speech of apology for the forced adoptions throughout our history.

There were lots of information boards including these which documented adoptions decade by decade.

It made for harrowing reading. As did many such boards spread throughout the exhibits.

How poignant were these 2 next items?

Very moving and sad though this exhibition was, it was wonderful that so many women could tell their story...their heartbreak and often never knowing how their child fared. 

And there was even a section devoted to the fathers...

What a photo...all those babies in that hospital nursery waiting to be adopted.

My mother put up 2 children for adoption; one found his mother. The other child we know nothing of. My aunt not long before she died, mentioned to my cousin that her sister had had another child but she gave us no details, so perhaps she didn't know any more. I can but hope that he or she has/had a good life.