Permanent Exhibitions

Debt of Honour Timor-Leste and Australia: The Boundaries of Friendship This permanent exhibition tells the little known story of Timor in World War II. It explores the bonds of friendship and camaraderie forged between Australian soldiers and the people of Timor-Leste and the "debt of honour" left to pay to the Timorese after the war. ... Read more

[stack_hero layout="dark-image" image="3818" opacity="3" height="70"] Xanana Gusmão Collection [/stack_hero] Gusmão was born in Manatuto, in what was then Portuguese Timor, to parents of mixed Portuguese-Timorese ancestry, both of whom were school teachers.[2] He attended a Jesuit high school just outside Dili. After leaving high-school for financial reasons at the age of fifteen, he held a variety of unskilled jobs, while continuing ... Read more