“Inside a shopping centre, a packed exhibition is celebrating the contribution of thousands of immigrants to building the National Health Service. To mark the NHS’s 75th birthday, the Migration Museum in South East London has gathered documents, photographs, memories, and objects from midwifery badges to nurses’ uniforms, to write migrant health-workers back into our national history.”
Our Artistic Director Aditi Anand and exhibition contributor Allyson Williams MBE were special guests on the Robert Elms show on BBC Radio London to talk about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS
“This multimedia exhibition at the Migration Museum in Lewisham delves into the history of the NHS, and to the many dedicated non-British-born workers who have contributed to it. Through photography, artefacts, and a newly commissioned interactive music video installation, their stories are lovingly told. It’s a wonderful way to gain some insight into how working for such a precious but pressured organisation has impacted their lives.”
Museums + Heritage Advisor featured the opening of our Heart of the Nation exhibition at the Migration Museum in Lewisham in its Museum Moves round-up.
