This month join PHA (Vic & Tas) in sunny Bendigo for a personalised tour of the Golden Dragon Museum. After the tour we will chat Chinese history and heritage over a cooked meal at the Emperors Dragon restaurant.

The Museum holds artefacts that reflect the history of Chinese in Australia from the 1850s gold-rushes to today. Chinese have continued to be a significant part of Australia, constituting one of the largest non-British migrant groups in both the 1850s and today. This presence has had a large impact on Australia, from our immigration polices to our diplomatic relations in Asia. Bendigo plays a crucial part in this history having drawn migrants over with the promise of gold, to the annual Chinese dragon procession at the Easter Fair - the longest running in Australia!

The Golden Museum aims to tell this diverse history through a large collection of over 30,000 objects, documents, photographs and oral histories. As our own President Sophie Couchman stated in her significance assessment of the museum collection, "the real strength of the collection is the deep insight it provides into the Bendigo Chinese community as a whole. No other single collection in Australia is able to provide the depth of insight into the Chinese community as large as Bendigo's."

The ticket covers the cost of museum entry and a set meal at the Emperors Dragon restaurant. Register here!