Australian Museum’s new exhibition – Weaving Memory, Australian Museum, June 2026
On Friday 5 June, the Australian Museum welcomed guests to the opening night of Weaving Memory: Mexican Textile Art, a special collaboration between the Australian Museum and the Embassy of Mexico in Australia celebrating 60 years of diplomatic relations between our two countries. It was a lively night, with music from the Víctor Valdés Mariachi Quartet and a Jose Cuervo tequila tasting adding to the celebrations.
The evening featured speeches from Irma Enriquez Thompson, Board Member and Cultural Director at COALAR-DFAT, and His Excellency Ernesto Céspedes Oropeza, Ambassador of Mexico to Australia, who reflected on the importance of cultural connections and exchange, as well as the enduring significance of Indigenous textile traditions.
The exhibition brings together photography, original woven textiles and film to explore the rich Indigenous textile traditions of Mexico. Drawn from the Tilmahtli project by Mexican anthropologist Miguel Ángel Sosme Campos, it showcases the people and cultural practices behind textile making. The exhibition highlights how textiles carry memory, identity and cultural knowledge across generations. The exhibition is on until 2 August.