Australian Museum Hosts Bermuda Kite Program

An Australian museum is hosting a two-week school holiday programme on Bermuda kites as part of its celebration of Easter traditions from around the world.

Melbourne’s Immigration Museum will be holding the workshop from March 30 to April 14

“Create your own paper kite inspired by traditional Bermuda designs and customs,” said the museum. “There is said to be a special religious significance in Bermuda to kite flying that started on Good Friday during Easter, when a local teacher had difficulty explaining the Christian religious idea of Jesus’ ascension to heaven to his Sunday school class. So he launched a kite with a likeness of Christ to symbolise this ascent. Today, people of all ages make and fly kites at Easter in Bermuda.

“Bermuda kites have long cloth tails and are made in different colours of tissue paper. Many feature exquisite patterns and some are huge, requiring several people to get aloft. Children will make their own hexagonal kite with tissue paper.”

The Immigration Museum primarily displays Australia’s immigration history. The museum was founded in 1998, and is a division of Museum Victoria, which administers the cultural and scientific collections of the State of Victoria. Its sister museums are Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks Museum.

In addition to its work on documenting immigration history, the museum also hosts various travelling exhibitions and also provides educational programmes like the Bermuda kite workshop.

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