German Emigration Center
Europe´s largest theme museum specializing on the topic of emigration.
Newsletter 7 (August 2008) >>
The German Emigration Center opened in Bremerhaven on August 8, 2005. The museum’s concept focuses on three main aspects:
the main exhibition on the topic of historical emigration, the Forum Migration as well as special exhibitions and events.
The visitors are taken on a tour through history based on the biography of an individual emigrant. The electronic admission ticket, the so-called “boarding pass” allows the visitor access various biography audio stations containing the life story of the emigrant and the history of his or her family, including living descendants, up through today. Further media stations contain information on social background and circumstances of that time.
The second part of the museums’ tour is allocated to the aspects of current global migration with the main focus on the Federal Republic of Germany as an emigration and immigration country. In our Forum Migration international data bases are available which allow visitors to search for their emigrated ancestors.
The museum is run by a public private partnership and has the focus on the historical emigration from Bremerhaven into the world. In 2007 the museums awarded as the European Museum of the Year 2007.
http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/
The German Emigration Center opened in Bremerhaven on August 8, 2005. The museum’s concept focuses on three main aspects:
the main exhibition on the topic of historical emigration, the Forum Migration as well as special exhibitions and events.
The visitors are taken on a tour through history based on the biography of an individual emigrant. The electronic admission ticket, the so-called “boarding pass” allows the visitor access various biography audio stations containing the life story of the emigrant and the history of his or her family, including living descendants, up through today. Further media stations contain information on social background and circumstances of that time.
The second part of the museums’ tour is allocated to the aspects of current global migration with the main focus on the Federal Republic of Germany as an emigration and immigration country. In our Forum Migration international data bases are available which allow visitors to search for their emigrated ancestors.
The museum is run by a public private partnership and has the focus on the historical emigration from Bremerhaven into the world. In 2007 the museums awarded as the European Museum of the Year 2007.
http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/
As the main topic for the presentation at the Annual Meeting of AEMI (29 September-3 October 2010, Bilbao, Spain) “Migration Studies and ICTs” has been proposed for the call of papers. Deadline: May 25, 2010.
The Histories of Home Subject Specialist Network’s Second Annual Conference, Multiple Belongings: Diaspora and Transnational Homes will take place on Friday 21 May at the British Library Conference Centre in London and will bring together academics, museum professionals, librarians and archivists. Booking deadline: Friday 14th May.
