Dataset: Museums

Migration museums facilitate transmission between generations as well as encounters between migrants and the host populations by telling personal stories. Like other forms of media, museums help to tell stories, and this in turn can foster inclusion, integration, and the right to difference. These stories help to deconstruct stereotypes and provide an alternative history.

Entries

A WALK THROUGH TATE MODERN ON THE THEME OF MIGRATION (2021)

January 26, 2022

At 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, 2022

Engaging 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, 2022

What 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, 2022

Migration—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, 2022

100 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, 2022

Migration 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, 2022

The 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, 2022

Open 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, 2022

This 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, 2019

The 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, 2016

More 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, 2015

Migration 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, 2015

Explore 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, 2015

The 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, 2015

100 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, 2015

Exhibition 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, 2013

For 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