George Alagiah, presenter of BBC News at Six and a distinguished friend of the Migration Museum Project, wrote about why Britain needs a Migration Museum and his efforts to help us find a permanent home in the New Statesman.

Our Room to Breathe exhibition was selected as a cultural highlight by award-winning film maker Bart Layton in the Observer.

“While policies have short-term impact, migration is a human story. People have for thousands of years arrived at and departed these shores. Migration is an integral part of who we are. Our museum and our new exhibition is an important step in recognising this.” – Our chair Barbara Roche writing in the Evening Standard in response to the latest migration statistics.

Wizz Air’s in-flight magazine featured our Room to Breathe exhibition in ‘The Insider’ section of its December–January 2019 issue.

“South London’s Migration Museum explores the experiences of generations of new arrivals in Britain through the Room to Breathe exhibition. Syrian artist Dima Karout is one of the artists in residence at the exhibition whose work is on display in the art studio.”

‘The Migration Museum in Lambeth is currently occupying part of the former engine workshop for the London fire service. “Having this site has been totally transformative for us,” says director Sophie Henderson. “It has allowed us to prove the concept of what we’re doing, while we look for a permanent home.”’

“This exhibition is about the daily lives of the people who come here and it’s an opportunity for people to get to know more of those stories.”

Our Trustee Robert Winder was interviewed at the Migration Museum for the ITV Tonight documentary ‘Immigration: Who Do We Let In’? (available to view until December 14 2018).

“Room to Breathe is an acutely personal and immersive exhibition, drawing on the stories and objects donated to it by men and women who came to Britain over the years and made it their home. Some have been in Britain for decades while others are recent movers. Their accounts, hidden in cupboards, or on the back of food packets in a mock-up kitchen, tell stories that are diverse, evocative, sometimes poignant, painful and funny.”

“We made it immersive, so we were able to take that distance away between the audience and the person who is telling a story,” Aditi Anand, one of the museum’s curators, told Eastern Eye. “It is about collapsing that divide, so it isn’t just a story you’re reading on a wall, but something you’re inhabiting.”

“This is an ambitious immersive exhibition and it’s truly fantastic.”

“This new exhibition examines the private moments of lives in transit, in vignette form. Using seven rooms built in replica as a means to tell these stories – a bedroom, a kitchen, a classroom, a barbershop amongst others – we are invited into intimate spaces offering an immersive experience, where fragments collected from more than 100 volunteers in film, written, audio form impress upon the visitor the joys and the hardships that make up all of our migration experiences… The spaces are warm, not just places of longing and of sadness, but also of happiness, celebrating the joy to be found in the freedom to be yourself, go out dancing, meet kindred spirits half a world away, and maybe even fall in love.”

A blog post for TES by Emily Miller, our head of learning and partnerships.

Our Refugee Week display of images from A Polaroid for a Refugee ranked number 1 in Time Out’s list of things to do for Refugee Week 2018 in London.

An interview with street artist Dreph, who held a call out event for his Migration Series project at the Migration Museum at The Workshop in June 2018.

‘A London street artist and former secondary school teacher has unveiled his latest painting in a series celebrating the work of the capital’s migrants. Working in partnership with Lambeth’s Migration Museum, he will hold an open call-out for anyone who believes themselves, a friend or family member would be a suitable subject.’

Our director, Sophie Henderson, writing in the Guardian on how a permanent Migration Museum for Britain could “help to break down barriers between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and foster a sense of shared heritage and belonging – not just for the Windrush generation, but for all of us”.

David Olusoga recommends the Migration Museum at The Workshop and our No Turning Back exhibition on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review podcast (download and listen from 48.00).

Our trustee Robert Winder appeared on talkRADIO’s breakfast show to talk about why the Windrush scandal is a “disgrace” and “embarrassing to the British brand”.