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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 it may contribute to the creation of a new and multiple identity, at an individual and collective level. Like the United States with Ellis Island, Australia, Canada, and more recently several European countries — for example, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland 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 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 2005, there's 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 isn't so much to bring in the intellectuals, academics, researchers, historians, traditional visitors of museums (the converted) but also and above all to attract the general public, those with preconceived ideas on immigration and the migrants themselves.

Migration museums around the world

Argentina

Museo de la inmigración

Australia

Immigration Museum

(Melbourne, State of Victoria)

Migration Museum

(Adelaide, State of South Australia)

NSW Migration Heritage Centre

(New South Wales, Australia) Brazil

Memorial do Imigrante

Canada

Pier 21

Immigrants to Canada

Virtual Museum of orphans immigrated to Canada

Denmark

Immigrant Museet — The Danish Immigration Museum

France

Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration

Germany

DOMiT — Dokumentationszentrum

Emigration World BallinStadt

Museum über die Migration in Deutschland

Ireland

Cobh Heritage Centre

Israel

Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

Italy

Altre Italie

The Netherlands

Kosmopolis — The House of Cultural Dialogue

Portugal

Museu da Emigração e das Comunidades

San Marino

San Marino Study Centre on Emigration — Museum of the Emigrant

Serbia

Migration Museum,

South Africa

Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum

Spain

MhiC — Museo de Historia de la Inmigración de Cataluña

Arquivo da Emigración Galega

Sweden

Immigrant-institutet

National Museums of World Culture

The Multicultural Centre

Switzerland

Migrations Museum

United Kingdom

19 Princelet Street

Indian Presence in Liverpool

History of London’s diverse communities

Moving Here

England's Past for Everyone

United States of America

Ellis Island Museum

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