Adding a Name
As an acknowledgement of your tax-deductible gift of $500 your name, or the name of a family member, relative, co-worker or friend will be etched in bronze onto the museum's Welcome Wall in recognition of their journey across the seas to make Australia their new home.
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A member of our team will contact you to discuss or to process your donation and inscription over the phone.
Australia’s National Monument to migration honours migrants nominated by donors to the Migration Heritage Fund. People honoured on the National Monument must have been born overseas and settled in Australia. Their arrival can have been by sea or air and Australian citizenship is not required.
Once you have donated you have the option to add a story about the person, along with information about their arrival, personal details and images. This information appears in your online profile and can be managed and added to at any time.
You must provide a signed consent form for each person you wish to honour on the Monument.
Donors who contribute $500 or more to the National Monument/Migration Heritage Fund, can register an inscription of 43 characters (one line) to be included on the museum's National Monument. The listing must be the name or names of family members who were born overseas and settled in Australia. Your donation is tax-deductible.
Each line of 43 characters is known as a registration. The line of text provided by the donor is engraved into a beautiful bronze panel that will be joined to existing National Monument panels.
When enough registrations have been received to fill a new panel (approx. 300 names), the panel is engraved and an unveiling ceremony held. Donors, their family and friends are all welcome to attend the ceremony.
Donors are also given access to an optional online profile on the National Monument website, where family information, documents and images can be stored, shared and added to.
Your donation is tax-deductible. You will receive a receipt via email that can be used for your next tax return. The Australian National Maritime Museum (ABN 35 023 590 988) is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient. All gifts of $2 or more are tax-deductible.
The National Monument records names of individual/s only.
Inscriptions can be up to 43 characters in length. Spaces, punctuation and brackets count as a character. Below are some tips for preparing your inscription copy.
- Surnames are displayed first
- Maiden names are included in brackets, in capital letters
- Nicknames are included in brackets, with letters in lowercase
- Titles and awards (eg. Dr, Esq, Mrs or OAM will not be inscribed)
Please note: each inscription purchased equals one online entry
All additional information submitted such as date of arrival and images can be viewed via the online entry.
Here are some examples of inscriptions:
Format
Example
Full name
BROWN Lisa Dorothy
Full name with nickname included in brackets
BROWN Lisa Dorothy (Thea)
Surname with initials
BROWN LD
Surname, maiden name with initials
BROWN (JONES) LD
Surname first name and family
BROWN Lisa and family
Family name only
BROWN family
Family name and two first names
BROWN Lisa and Larry
Family name, two first names and initials
BROWN Lisa DH and Larry ES
Family name, first names and family only
BROWN Lisa, Larry, Linda and family
Your generous gift will allow development and expansion of our migration programs to strengthen visitors' understanding of our rich migration history.
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