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8 June, 2015

RE·THINK Migration with us at the National Maritime Museum

Colour photograph showing woman and two young boys sitting on a bench on the deck of a P&O ship, a lifeboat in view behind them. The woman wears a long tartan skirt, navy top and patterned scarf and looks directly into the camera. The two boys are dressed in shorts, blazers and long grey socks. The boy to her right is looking up from his book and the boy to her left is peeking up too, either shyly or squinting in the sunlight.

RE·THINK Migration at the National Maritime Museum is now open! The space will grow in content over its 5 months as we engage with visitors, schools and community groups.

Fri 05 June – mid-November 2015⎪10am – 5pm daily
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich⎪RE·THINK, Floor One⎪Free admission

RE·THINK logo – black text on blue background

RE·THINK at the National Maritime Museum offers visitors the space to explore, discover and reflect on the museum’s themes and to create responses within the gallery.

From June until mid-November, RE·THINK will focus on Migration, one of the National Maritime Museum’s seven themes, and the Migration Museum Project will be working with the National Maritime Museum to engage with visitors, school groups and community groups.

To receive details of upcoming events and activities in RE·THINK, sign up for our updates and invites.

If you are a teacher/educator interested in exploring migration with us at the National Maritime Museum, please contact Emily.

If you are a community group leader/member interested in exploring migration with us at the National Maritime Museum and contributing to our Keepsakes project, please contact Tanisa.

For more information about RE·THINK, visit National Maritime Museum’s website.

8 June, 2015

Director Sophie Henderson talks Adopting Britain and more with Unbound Philanthropy’s Taryn Higashi

Visitors look at paper discs on wall, which visitors have written their migration/non-migration stories on before hanging up. A young boy in the foreground captures the scene on a tablet camera.

Taryn Higashi, Executive Director of Unbound Philanthropy, interviewed our Director Sophie Henderson in April to share news of our part in Adopting Britain at Southbank Centre and more…

You can read the full interview in Unbound Philanthropy’s Summer Newsletter, in which you can also find out more about the other organisations and initiatives that Unbound Philanthropy supports.

Visitors look at paper discs on wall, which visitors have written their migration/non-migration stories on before hanging up. A young boy in the foreground captures the scene on a tablet camera.

Visitors enjoying the Adopting Britain exhibition at a celebration event on 2 May 2015.

The logo features 'Unbound' in graffiti file font, mixed white and purple, on a plain black background. We are delighted to be a 2013–16 grants recipient of Unbound Philanthropy.

26 May, 2015

BuzzFeed features 100 Images of Migration

We are delighted to share with you a BuzzFeed News article on our 100 Images of Migration online gallery. Many thanks to Shyamantha Asokan for reporting.

Remember you can continue to contribute to our 100 Images of Migration through Flickr – thanks to all of you who have been adding your images!

See the full article on BuzzFeed

Screenshot of BuzzFeed article with introduction and photograph by Lisa Ebert.

Screenshot of BuzzFeed article. The photograph is “British Gypsies” by Lisa Ebert which features in our 100 Images of Migration.

If you like this, please do also check out a recent BuzzFeed article on our friends Counterpoints Arts and their Traces project, which features in Adopting Britain at Southbank Centre along with our 100 Images of Migration and Keepsakes displays.