Entries
A WALK THROUGH TATE MODERN ON THE THEME OF MIGRATION (2021)
January 26, 2022At a time when the borders between lands are continually being disputed, what does it mean to move across countries, to change nationalities and to… Read more
Crossings: community and refuge | British Museum (2021-2023)
January 25, 2022Engaging audiences in questions of identity, belonging and sharing our world, A British Museum Spotlight Loan Crossings: community and refuge will tour the Lampedusa cross… Read more
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art | Harvard Art Museums (2020)
January 25, 2022What does it mean to be displaced from culture and home? What are the historical contexts for understanding our contemporary moment? How does an artist’s… Read more
When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art (2021)
January 25, 2022Migration—the movement of people and cultures—is a story of who we are and how we got here over time. Millions of people move for myriad… Read more
100 Images of Migration (2013- Present)
January 25, 2022100 Images of Migration is the exhibition with which we launched the Migration Museum Project in 2013. The product of a competition run with the… Read more
Departures (2022)
January 25, 2022Migration Museum Lewisham Shopping Centre London SE13 7HB Until 13 February 2022 Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5.30pm (5pm close on Sunday) Admission: Free – advance booking not required Departures… Read more
Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS | The Migration Museum (2022)
January 25, 2022The NHS is close to all of our hearts – now more than ever. From the very beginning, people have come to Britain from all… Read more
Room To Breathe 2021-2022
January 25, 2022Open the door, put down your suitcase, take off your coat, let the outside world fade away. This is where it begins. A room that… Read more
Tell Us Your Immigration Story (February 09, 2018 – June 03, 2018)
January 25, 2022This interactive exhibition, organized in conjunction with Emigration–Immigration–Migration, will grow over time, highlighting YOUR stories through writing, audio and photographs. In addition, we will feature… Read more
Museum Exhibits: “The Warmth of Other Suns” and “When Home Won’t Let You Stay”
October 28, 2019The Phillips Collection in Washington DC recently wrapped up an exhibit in partnership with the New Museum in New York, exploring “both real and imaginary… Read more
People on the move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series
December 8, 2016More than 75 years ago, a young artist named Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) set to work on an ambitious 60-panel series portraying the Great Migration, the… Read more
Migration Museums
October 20, 2015Migration museums cover human migration in the past, present and future. The current trend in the development of migration museums, named differently worldwide, is an interesting phenomenon, as… Read more
Migration Museums Directory
October 20, 2015Explore museums that feature exhibits on migration before visiting. Australia Immigration Museum Migration Museum, Adelaide Migration Museum New South Wales Migration Heritage Centre Argentina Museo Nacional de… Read more
A digital globe and 200,000 years of human migration
October 20, 2015The Ellis Island Immigration Museum suffered the devastation of Hurricane Sandy firsthand. Now, more than two years after the storm struck New York City (and… Read more
Featured Exhibits
October 20, 2015100 Stories of Migration – To learn morevisit their website. Pop-up Migration Museum, in close collaboration with the Glasgow Museums and Glasgow Museums Open Museum… Read more
Jacob Lawrence: One-Way Ticket
October 19, 2015Exhibition at MoMA: One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works April 3–September 7, 2015 In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old,… Read more
A Visit to the Tenement Museum, New York City
September 19, 2013For anyone studying immigration into the United States today, “the lower East Side” of New York has a recognizably hallowed status, so celebrated has it… Read more