“Here at Room to Breathe, stories aren’t just shared, they’re lived. Each space is incredibly inviting you’ll have a hard time leaving, and even when you do, the memories of this magnificent exhibition are likely to stay with you.”

‘An art and sound installation created from the stories of the Windrush Generation is opening at the Migration Museum in Vauxhall next month.’

A review of Chris Steele-Perkins’ The New Londoners exhibition, on display at the Migration Museum from 5 April until 26 May 2019.

An article in Pensions&Investments on Allianz Global Investors’ sponsorship of our Migrants Mean Business series.

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.”

A feature in Jewish News on the New Art Studio, artists in residence in the art studio in our Room to Breathe exhibition in January 2019.

‘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.”

BBC Two’s Newsnight programme explored the complexities of the term ‘mixed race’ and whether people of a mixed race heritage identify with it, filmed at the Migration Museum at The Workshop and featuring works from our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition.

The new museum seeks to humanize the way people think about migration in the UK.