Room to Breathe Migration Museum at The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7AG (Nearest tube: Vauxhall)
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Our Room to Breathe exhibition is open until 8pm every Thursday. See the exhibition after work, grab a drink and chat with members of our team.
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Migration Museum at The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7AG (Nearest tube: Vauxhall)
Open Wed–Sun 11am–5pm (late opening until 9pm last Thurs of every month)
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Mayor of London Sadiq Khan supports the Migration Museum Project
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Cazenove Road by Christian Sinibaldi, from our 100 Images of Migration exhibition online gallery.
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The Migration Museum at The Workshop – telling stories of movement to and from Britain in fresh and engaging ways.
We stage an adventurous programme of exhibitions, events and education workshops at our museum, housed in The Workshop, an arts and community space just off Albert Embankment in London.
The Migration Museum at The Workshop is located at 26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG.
Please note that we are closed for the holidays from Friday 21 December 2018 until Wednesday 9 January 2019 (inclusive). Our first day open after the holidays is Thursday 10 January 2019.
Opening hours: 12pm–8pm (Thursdays), 12pm–6pm (Fridays–Sundays)
Read more about our projectStelio Stefanou came to the UK aged six with his Greek Cypriot parents. His career in the oil, construction and public service industries culminated in the sale of his business, Accord plc in 2007. He has established two charities, the Stefanou Foundation in the UK and the Stefanou Foundation Cyprus, which aim to break new…
November 1, 2018
An immersive exhibition inviting you to discover stories from generations of new arrivals to Britain. Journey through a series of rooms in which the struggles, joys, creativity and resilience of living in a new land are brought to life through audio, films, photographs and personal objects.
An immersive exhibition inviting you to discover stories from generations of new arrivals to Britain. Journey through a series of rooms in which the struggles, joys, creativity and resilience of living in a new land are brought to life through audio, films, photographs and personal objects.
A new exhibition from the Migration Museum exploring seven migration moments throughout history that changed Britain through art, photography, graphics, quotes and stories.
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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.
Room to Breathe at the Migration Museum takes visitors on an immersive journey through a series of interconnected rooms, revealing the multi-layered experience of migrants and refugees arriving in a new country. Intimate personal stories are brought to life through audio recordings of oral histories as visitors go through the different rooms. At the centre…
Dima Karout is our first artist in residence for our Room to Breathe exhibition and will be curator in residence of the art studio in the exhibition, overseeing a series of residencies by migrant artists. In this blog post, Dima introduces her artistic practice and approach and explains how our artist-in-residence series will work.
When people express anxieties about immigration, they tend to do so in terms of its economic, social or cultural effect on the country – and occasionally all three. Of these, the social effect of immigration continues to be the most divisive, with strident voices expressing bitterly opposing views. As far as the other two are…
This is a guest blog by photographer Tim Smith, a long-standing friend of the Migration Museum Project and contributor to our 100 Images of Migration exhibition. He describes the background to Island to Island – Journeys Through the Caribbean, a new exhibition at Leeds Central Library which runs from 27 June until 27 July 2018. A…
A guest blog by Giovanna Del Sarto, creator of A Polaroid for a Refugee, a photographic project depicting points of transition in the lives of individual refugees, a selection of images from which we are displaying at the Migration Museum at The Workshop in June 2018.
We’re putting the finishing touches to our new brochure (our sixth, by my reckoning), which we hope to have ready in paper form and as a pdf on our website in the next few weeks. It’s always an interesting process: taking stock of how far we have travelled and how much we have done, re-examining…
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A guest blog by Asher Goodenough, Subject Advisor for History at OCR, on the Moving Stories competition, which the Migration Museum Project ran in partnership with OCR.
The title is a reference to the song made famous by Ike and Tina Turner in 1966, lavishly and operatically (some might say bombastically) produced by Phil Spector. Fortunately for this blog, Eric Burdon and the Animals (themselves not averse to musical pyrotechnics) reprised the song in 1968, the year that is the focus of…
For many people, there was a golden age when Britain was truly British, populated by the British, with shared cultural and religious values. This golden age is variously identified as that of King Arthur, or Elizabeth I or Victoria, or Churchill, among others. As is the case with most golden ages, all too often the…
On Tuesday 13 March, Historic England conferred Grade I listed status on the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, Surrey, which thereby became the first mosque to receive this status in the country. There had been other registered mosques in the UK before the Woking mosque, the earliest on record being the Liverpool Muslim Institute, which…
A range of self-directed activities for school trips to our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition, encompassing KS3 and KS4 resources co-designed with teachers for before your visit and to follow up in the classroom afterwards.
These lessons introduce pupils to the results of the research project into medieval immigration using extensive government records from the time.
The Migration Museum Project is seeking a Head of Public Engagement to scope, design and work with our existing team and partners to deliver a public engagement strategy.
We are inviting refugee or migrant artists to apply for the opportunity to work in an art studio as part of our upcoming Room to Breathe exhibition for a period of three weeks to one month in spring 2019. The artist will use the space to display previous work, create new work around the theme of resilience, and then participate in a group show at the end of the main exhibition in July.
When people express anxieties about immigration, they tend to do so in terms of its economic, social or cultural effect on the country – and occasionally all three. Of these, the social effect of immigration continues to be the most divisive, with strident voices expressing bitterly opposing views. As far as the other two are…
The Migration Museum highlighted the diversity of the England team in a campaign to coincide with England’s first World Cup game against Tunisia on 18 June 2018 asking what the starting XI would look like without the impact of first and second-generation immigrants.
Our pilot Migration Museums Network ran from November 2016–November 2017, with participants expressing strong demand for an information-sharing network on migration themes and giving positive feedback on the two events held to date.
Dr Nadia Valman has been awarded the Hawking Award for Developed Understanding of Public Engagement for her collaboration with the Migration Museum Project on ‘Migrant Literature Walks’ in 2017 and 2018.
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Primary and secondary school teachers are invited to the Migration Museum at The Workshop on Wednesday 2 May to find out all about our education programme related to our current exhibition ‘No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain’.
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The Migration Museum Book Club aims to bring together those who have stories to tell and those who have read good stories. Devised and run by our volunteers and based around a monthly theme, attendees are invited to bring a book, poem, article or a piece of their own writing to share and discuss with the group.
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We will be judging the finalists in our competition with exam board OCR on 24 April, with the winning team having the opportunity to visit New York City this summer as the prize.
Watch historian, producer and presenter David Olusoga, one of our Distinguished Friends, speaking at the launch of our Room to Breathe exhibition on 31 October 2018.
A selection of audio food stories from our Room to Breathe exhibition.
A video showcasing our inaugural Moving Stories competition, in partnership with exam board OCR, in which teams of students studying OCR’s migration GCSE history units were invited to design a new exhibition based on an aspect of their studies, with the winning team jetting off to New York City in summer 2018.
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Listen to a panel discussion on the role of the media in shaping and influencing the national debate around migration, featuring Liz Gerard, former Times journalist and independent blogger of the year; Jakub Krupa, UK correspondent for the Polish Press Agency; Abdulwahab Tahhan, a Syria-born, UK-based journalist. The discussion was chaired by Sunder Katwala, director of British Future and former journalist.
This brochure outlines our plans to create a permanent Migration Museum for Britain, our current and past activities and our achievements to date.
Download and view the full report here This evaluation report reflects on a pilot year for a proposed Migration Museums Network that ran from November 2016 to November 2017. The Migration Museum Project (MMP) coordinated this pilot to gauge the demand and need for a Network to increase and improve work on migration and related themes across the…
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Listen to our 2017 LSE–MMP annual lecture on Partition, 70 years on, given by Lady Kishwar Desai.
This report shares the results from an online survey of 119 museum professionals and academics conducted in 2017, evaluating the exploration of migration themes by museums and galleries across the UK and assessing demand for the creation of a Migration Museums Network.
A report exploring the case for a national migration museum, and a migration museums network, authored by Dr Cathy Ross and Emma Shapiro.
Journalist and author Gary Younge looks at how immigration is understood in the current age and what the consequences are in terms of migration, social anxiety and democracy.
