Migration Museum at The Workshop 26 Lambeth High Street London SE1 7AG
© Roland Williams
Call me by my name: stories from Calais and beyond
© Paul Evans, The Red Carpet
Cazenove Road, London
© Christian Sinibaldi
Sasha, Maurice and Frank with their Keepsakes. See Exhibitions below for Keepsakes gallery and stories
© Camilla Greenwell
The Migration Museum at The Workshop – telling stories of movement to and from Britain in fresh and engaging ways at our dynamic new London venue.
We stage an adventurous programme of exhibitions, events and education workshops at our new museum, housed in The Workshop, an arts and community space just off Albert Embankment.
The Migration Museum at The Workshop is open Wednesday–Sunday (plus bank holidays), from 11am–5pm.
Read more about our projectJackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. THE ADOPTION PAPERS (Bloodaxe) won the Forward Prize, a Saltire prize and a Scottish Arts Council Prize. FIERE, her most recent collection of poems was shortlisted for the COSTA award. Her novel TRUMPET won the Guardian Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the IMPAC award. RED… Read more
© Siddharta Arbelaez Caldas and Aditi Anand
June 23, 2017
Keepsakes is a display of personal items that keep memories of migration and identity alive. This brand-new display is in partnership with Morley College, located close to Migration Museum at The Workshop. Read more
June 12, 2017
The Migration Museum Project has contributed to a community exhibition celebrating the vibrant contributions made to the cultural life of Oxford by those who have travelled to the city to live, work, visit and study. Read more
© Christian Sinibaldi
April 26, 2017
A collection of diverse images by professional and amateur photographers that together tell a compelling story about what migration means to people across the UK Read more
© Paul Evans, The Red Carpet
April 26, 2017
An updated version of our acclaimed multimedia exhibition, originally staged in June 2016, exploring the complex and human stories behind the current migration ‘crisis’, with a particular focus on the now-demolished Calais camp. Read more
© Paul Evans, The Red Carpet
Call me by my name: stories from Calais and beyond explores the complexity and human stories behind the current migration crisis, with a particular focus on the Calais camp. Read more
© Christian Sinibaldi
A collection of diverse images by professional and amateur photographers that together tell a compelling story about what migration means to people across the UK. Read more
© Siddharta Arbelaez Caldas and Aditi Anand
Working with communities and individuals, we are exploring the nature and importance of personal keepsakes in telling migration stories. Read more
© Tim Smith
We are very proud to have been a part of the Adopting Britain exhibition, curated by Southbank Centre in partnership with Counterpoints Arts, during its run at Royal Festival Hall from April to September 2015. Read more
Explore the rich and fascinating history of German migrants to Britain in our pop-up exhibition, which has toured extensively throughout the UK.
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We collaborated with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich to explore the theme of migration with visitors from June – November 2015.
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How long do you have to live somewhere before you are accepted as belonging there? A friend moved to a village in Devon 30 years ago and is now leader of the parish council. But she regularly finds her proposals or decisions challenged by another council member, who invariably begins his sarcastic intervention, ‘Well, as… Read more
A new exhibition has opened in Roast restaurant in London’s Borough Market, founded by a distinguished friend – and generous supporter – of the Migration Museum Project, Iqbal Wahhab. Here Iqbal talks about the circumstances that provided the unfortunate inspiration for the exhibition. No one really knows what’s going to happen post-Brexit. But we do… Read more
Standing at a crossroads What have been the pivotal moments, the forks in the road, the lines in the sand in the history of migration in this country? And was the referendum on 23 June 2016 one of those moments? The pivotal moments in a person’s, or a country’s, life are always compelling hooks to… Read more
One of the clear highlights of our ‘Imprints’ walk last October (to judge from the feedback of walkers) was Bill Bingham’s rendition of the ‘Strangers’ speech from Sir Thomas More. Bill, a tireless friend of the Migration Museum Project and the mastermind behind the video tent in our current exhibition of Call Me By My… Read more
After Khalid Masood’s attack on Westminster last week, both Birmingham and Islam were singled out for critical comment in some of the nation’s press – Birmingham being once again branded the UK’s prime jihadist recruitment centre, and Islam criticised for its callousness, as evidenced by the photograph of a young Muslim woman walking past one… Read more
Waiting for the midnight hour This year marks the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence. On 15 August 1947, ‘At the stroke of the midnight hour,’ as India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, sonorously proclaimed, ‘when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.’ And so it did, but it awoke too to the… Read more
This website draws on the research of over 60 historians based in universities and historical institutions and presents the often untold stories of the generations of migrants who came to and shaped the British Isles.
These lessons introduce pupils to the results of the research project into medieval immigration using extensive government records from the time.
A quiz, story and role play, designed to get students thinking about forced migration.
© Roland Williams
On the 10th May 2017 we were delighted to welcome 500 supporters to celebrate the opening of our new venue, Migration Museum at The Workshop. Guests enjoyed a wonderful performance by Yasmin Kadi, as well as talks by distinguished friends, Lord Alf Dubs and George Alagiah. Migration Museum at The Workshop Launch from Migration… Read more
How long do you have to live somewhere before you are accepted as belonging there? A friend moved to a village in Devon 30 years ago and is now leader of the parish council. But she regularly finds her proposals or decisions challenged by another council member, who invariably begins his sarcastic intervention, ‘Well, as… Read more
Join us for a free performance of migration themed music by Street Orchestra London this Sunday at 2:30pm with 100 Images of Migration as the gallery backdrop. Read more
© Roland Williams
We are delighted to announce the launch of our dynamic new venue, Migration Museum at The Workshop. Read more
The Migration Museum Project is excited to announce the launch of the Migration Museums Network. Read more
© Migration Museum Project
On 18 November 2015, Robert Tombs delivered our second Annual Lecture in partnership with the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Listen to the audio podcast. Read more
Audio podcast and transcript of Michael Rosen’s The Languages of Migration talk for the Migration Museum Project – London School of Economics inaugural annual Public Lecture. Read more
© Tim Smith
First shown at Hackney Museum, our exhibition is now viewable as an online gallery. Read more
