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Migration museum

August 28, 2023

For the Migration Museum in Adelaide, South Australia, see Migration Museum, Adelaide.

Migration museums cover human migration in the past, present and future.

Background Edit

The current trend in the development of migration museums, named differently worldwide, is an interesting phenomenon, as it may contribute to the creation of a new and multiple identity, at an individual and collective level. The United States with Ellis Island, Australia, Canada, and more recently several European countries — e.g., France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium and the United Kingdom — have been creating such venues to facilitate transmission between generations as well as encounters between migrants and the host populations, by telling their personal story.

While these initiatives also serve the duty to remember, they seem to have three main objectives: Acknowledge, integrate and build awareness

  • Acknowledge: The contributions made by migrants to their host societies; the diversity and wealth of the origin cultures and; the right to a dual-belonging.
  • Include and Integrate: Foster the sense of belonging; enable the communities to feel as an integral part of the nation; find common ground and contribute to a national identity.
  • Build awareness and educate on the events that induced individuals — and refugees in particular — to leave their land, thus developing empathy among the host population. More generally, deconstruct stereotypes on immigration.

Given the international scene and the latest events, from the Van Gogh affair in the Netherlands in 2004 to the so-called ‘crise des banlieues’ in France in 2005there is an urgent need to give the migrant generations (the youth as well as their parents) a voice, in order to foster inclusion, integration and the right to difference. Listening to individual stories may help to deconstruct stereotypes. Memory, History and Narration may also allow to take a step back and to consider the complete picture.

Migration museums also face common challenges, in that they intend to be not only a venue for conservation and exhibition, but also and above all a lively meeting place. The challenge is not so much to bring in the intellectuals, academics, researchers, historians, traditional visitors of museums (the converted) but to attract the general public, those with preconceived ideas on immigration and the migrants themselves.

In addition to the following list, there are many local heritage initiatives and smaller museums which have increasingly focused on migration as a part of the narrative they portray.

List of migration museums Edit

Image Museum City Country Established
American Museum of Immigration (closed in 1991) New York City United States 1972
  Angel Island Immigration Station museum Tiburon, California United States
  BallinStadt Hamburg Germany 2007
  Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada 1999
Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration Paris France 2007
  Cobh Heritage Centre Cobh Ireland 1993
  Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration New York City United States 1990
  Emigration Museum Gdynia Poland 2015
  German Emigration Center Bremerhaven Germany 2005
  Immigration Museum Melbourne Australia 1998
MigratieMuseumMigration Brussels Belgium 2019
  Migration Museum Adelaide Australia 1986
  Museum of Immigration and Diversity London United Kingdom
  Museum of the African Diaspora San Francisco United States 2005
  National Museum of Immigration Buenos Aires Argentina
  Swedish Emigrant Institute Växjö Sweden 1965
  Western Norway Emigration Center Sletta, Vestland Norway

Further reading Edit

  • Maria Beatriz Rocha-Trindade, Miguel Monteiro (2007), "Museums Devoted to Migration: the Portuguese Emigration Museum", Museum International 59 (1-2), 145–150.
  • Aytac Eryilmaz, "The Political and Social Significance of a Museum of Migration in Germany", Museum International, Volume 59, Numbers 1–2, May 2007, pp. 127–136
  • Viv Szekeres, "Representing diversity and challenging racism: the Migration Museum", in Richard Sandell (editor), Museums, Society, Inequality (Routledge, London, 2002) pp. 142–152

References Edit

External links Edit

  • UN Alliance of Civilizations online community on Good Practices of Integration of Migrants across the World

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