Migration museum

A Migration Museum presents the history of human migration from dar. or in a country or region in the past and in the present

General

Migration Museums are a relatively new phenomenon. Numerous migration museums have been opened in the last 20 years. It is hoped that they contribute to a new and multiple identity, both on an individual and collective level. In the United States ( Ellis Iceland ), Australia and Canada, and later also in various European countries, for example France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, such institutions were created to the transfer of experiences between generations as well as encounters between migrants and the host population to facilitate, not least through the telling of personal stories.

About the preservation of memory, these museums are mainly three purposes: recognition, integration and awareness.

  • Recognition: It is about the recognition of the contribution that migrants have made to the host society to the diversity and richness of the cultures of the countries of origin and to the right to a double belonging.
  • Inclusion and integration: strengthening the sense of belonging, looking for similarities and representation of the contribution to the national identity of the host country
  • Awareness: Here it comes, to convey historical knowledge of the reasons that prompted individuals to leave their homeland, and to encourage empathy of the population of the host country. General shall stereotypes are broken down migration.

Given the international migration and the recent events such as the affair van Gogh and the riots in France in 2005 seems an urgent need to exist to give the immigrant generations ( youth as their parents ) a voice to inclusion, integration and the right to difference promote. Listen to individual stories may help reduce stereotypes. The combination of memory, history and narrative may make it possible to step back and recognize a broader context.

Asked to see the challenges which migration museums, it is that they are intended not only as places for exhibitions and for the storage of objects, but want to be vibrant places of encounter counts. Not only intellectuals, academics, researchers, historians and traditional museum visitors to come, but a wide audience that has often preconceived opinions about migration and immigrants.

Migration Museums

Links to migration museums around the world

Argentina

  • Museo de la inmigración

Australia

  • Immigration Museum (Melbourne, Victoria )
  • Migration Museum (Adelaide, South Australia )
  • NSW Migration Heritage Centre (New South Wales, Australia)

Brazil

  • Memorial do Imigrante

Denmark

  • Immigrant Museet - The Danish Immigration Museum

Germany

  • DOMiD - Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany
  • Museum of Migration in Germany
  • Ways of life - The Online Migration Museum Rhineland -Palatinate

France

  • Cité nationale de l' histoire de l'immigration

Great Britain

Ireland

  • Cobh Heritage Centre

Israel

  • Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

Italy

  • Altars Italie

Canada

  • Pier 21
  • Immigrants to Canada
  • Virtual Museum about immigrated to Canada orphans

Netherlands

  • Cosmopolis - The House of Cultural Dialogue

Portugal

  • Museu da Emigração e the Comunidades

San Marino

  • San Marino Study Centre on Emigration - Museum of the Emigrant

South Africa

  • Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

Spain

  • Mhic - Museo de Historia de la Inmigración de Cataluña
  • Arquivo da Galega Emigración

Sweden

  • Immigrant institutet
  • National Museums of World Culture
  • The Multicultural Centre

Switzerland

  • Project Migration Museum Switzerland

USA

  • Ellis Iceland Immigration Museum
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