The Museum at the Centre of Arrival

Doug Saunders

Migration:Cities Workshop, Mexico 2017. Doug Saunders is the international-affairs columnist for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper and is the author of three books on migration and cities: Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History is Reshaping Our World; The Myth of the Muslim Tide; and, in 2017, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians are Not Enough. In 2016, he co-designed the Germany pavilion for the Venice Architecture Biennale on migration themes that has become a touring international museum exhibition.

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Curator at Museum Rotterdam

Voice of Freedom

by Widespread Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom

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The temporary exhibition hosted in 2018 at the museum is about ten Nigerian women who escaped slavery and had the chance to tell their stories through photography. By reversing the classic … [read more]

The temporary exhibition hosted in 2018 at the museum is about ten Nigerian women who escaped slavery and had the chance to tell their stories through photography. By reversing the classic photographic narration, Voice of Freedom puts the victims behind the camera, thus offering the opportunity to tell each other's experience in person and with their own sensitivity. Down below you can find the social media accounts of the museum and the exhibition "Voice of Freedom": https://www.facebook.com/MuseoDiffusodellaResistenza/ https://www.facebook.com/voiceoffreedom.uk/ [hide]

How to put immigration in a museum?

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Andrea Delaplace presented her master’s dissertation on the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration at EHESS – … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Andrea Delaplace presented her master’s dissertation on the Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration at EHESS – École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - (Mention Ethnology and Social Anthropology) and is a PhD student in Museum studies and heritage, ED 441 History of Art, Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, under the supervision of Dominique Poulot. She is also a member of the Groupe de Recherche en Histoire du Patrimoine et des Musées - HiPaM: https://hipam.hypotheses.org/83and of the Association de la recherché sur l’image photographique – Arip : http://arip.hypotheses.org/author/del... Publications : Cahiers de l’Ecole du Louvre n°7 Octobre 2015 - Un palais pour les immigrés? Le musée de l’histoire de l’immigration à Paris: une collection et un musée en devenir. http://cel.revues.org/296 [hide]

Creating Intercultural Dialogues

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Creating Intercultural Dialogues between the City and the Immigrants - Immigration Docent Projects in National Taiwan … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Creating Intercultural Dialogues between the City and the Immigrants - Immigration Docent Projects in National Taiwan Museum. Emily Hsuwen Yuan is a Research Assistant of the Education Department, National Taiwan Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. She was a Project Manager of following Events: ICOM-NATHIST 2015, TAIWAN; National Cultural Conference – the New Immigrant Conference, 2017; New Immigrant Docent Project, since 2014. She was also the Curator of Special Exhibition of Southeast Asian Flavor, the Taste of Hometown”, 2017. [hide]

Interactive Workshop Session

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Interactive Workshop Session from CAMOC's Vice Chair, Catherince C. Cole.

Towards a common migration strategy for museums

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Smaro Skoulikidis has over 27 years’ experience with the United Nations, formulating and managing large scale … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Smaro Skoulikidis has over 27 years’ experience with the United Nations, formulating and managing large scale humanitarian, post-conflict, recovery and development programmes. She has worked with a number of UN organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the World Food Programme, as well as Peacekeeping Missions, and is currently the Director of the Office of the Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General in the Peacekeeping Mission (MONUSCO) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She also has a Diploma in Museum Studies from the Reinwardt Academie in the Netherlands and has been an advisor to the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Liberia and the DRC. [hide]

Museums Change Lives?

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Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Emma Winch is the Learning Manager for Hackney Museum, a small community history museum in the diverse London Borough … [read more]

Migration:Cities Workshop in June the 2nd 2018, Historical Museum Frankfurt. Emma Winch is the Learning Manager for Hackney Museum, a small community history museum in the diverse London Borough of Hackney, with an international reputation for its pioneering community engagement programme. In 2014 she was also part of the management team who opened Black Cultural Archives, the UK’s first Black heritage centre in London where she oversaw the learning and exhibition programme and co- curated their first two exhibitions. Emma organizes the annual UK-wide Antiuniversity Now Festival, sits on the Education Committee for the Migration Museum and works as a Freelance Heritage Consultant, advising organizations on community engagement, writing online and printed learning resources, and mentoring early career museum professionals. [hide]