BBC East Midlands Today – Heart of the Nation (03/07/2023)
BBC East Midlands Today covered our Heart of the Nation exhibition, featuring an interview with our Artistic Director Aditi Anand.
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AFP – London exhibition spotlights migrant business owners (17/07/2023)
Agence France Presse wrote a feature on our Taking Care of Business exhibition, picked up by global outlets including France 24 and Yahoo! News, including interviews with the Migration Museum’s Matthew Plowright and Angela Hui, guest curator of the Chinese Takeaway installation in the exhibition.
ReadWanderlust – 6 ethical tours and experiences to enjoy in the UK this summer(15/07/2023)
Travel magazine Wanderlust featured our Heart of the Nation exhibition as one of six ethical tours and experiences to enjoy in the UK this summer
ReadThe Guardian – ‘Camaraderie, love and affection’: migration and the making of the NHS – a photo essay (14/07/2023)
A photo essay in the Guardian featuring portraits of migrant NHS workers from across seven decades by award-winning photographer Christian Sinibaldi, commissioned by the Migration Museum for its Heart of the Nation exhibition.
ReadMixmag – How UK Cultural Institutions are Celebrating and Archiving the Lives of the Windrush Generation (14/07/2023)
Mixmag featured our work around Windrush 75 in an article about how UK cultural institutions are celebrating and archiving the lives of the Windrush Generation
ReadLeicester Mercury – I visited NHS and migration exhibition at Leicester museum and left feeling overwhelmed with emotion (06/07/2023)
I never expected to leave Leicester’s New Walk Museum in tears. But on a random Wednesday morning I did just that. When I caught wind of its new exhibition – Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS – I knew I had to check it out. The experience left me feeling overwhelmed, nostalgic and grateful.
ReadBBC Asian Network – Happy Birthday NHS (05/07/2023)
Heart of the Nation story contributors Nayyar and Nitha Naqvi were interviewed by Ankur Desai on BBC Asian Network about two generations of the same family working in the NHS.
ReadBig Issue – In pictures: The role Caribbean migrants have played in the NHS, on its 75th anniversary (05/07/2023)
A new exhibition marks the NHS’s birthday with a series of portraits
Metro – Immigrants like me are the lifeblood of the NHS (05/07/2023)
Heart of the Nation story contributor Gulzar Waljee was featured in Metro on the 75th anniversary of the NHS.
ReadMuseums Journal – Migration Museum creates touring exhibition to mark NHS anniversary (04/07/2023)
An interview with the Migration Museum’s Artistic Director Aditi Anand in Museums Journal
ReadBBC Radio Leicester – Kelly Hinch’s Breakfast Show (01/07/2023)
The Migration Museum’s Artistic Director Aditi Anand was a guest on Kelly Hinch’s Breakfast Show alongside Mirasol De Guzman and Jyotsana Raval, two Leicester-based NHS workers whose stories feature in Heart of the Nation.
Readi News – The NHS workforce plan aims to recruit thousands more doctors – but the staffing crisis will take years to fix (30/06/2023)
Indeed, the NHS has relied on doctors and nurses arriving from abroad – especially southern Asia, the Caribbean and Africa – ever since its creation in 1948. Their contributions are celebrated in a new exhibition by the Migration Museum, currently open in Leicester before moving to Leeds and London.
ReadDazed – How migrants made the NHS (30/06/2023)
The Migration Museum’s new touring exhibition Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS tells the story of migrant healthcare workers in Britain
BBC Radio Leicester – Ben Jackson’s Afternoon Show (27/06/2023)
Aditi Anand, the Migration Museum’s Artistic Director, was a guest on Ben Jackson’s afternoon show on BBC Radio Leicester talking about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS
ReadEastern Eye – NHS anniversary tour exhibition celebrates contributions of migrants (27/06/2023)
The Migration Museum is set to launch “Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS,” a national touring exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of the National Health Service (NHS).
ReadThe Guardian – Exhibition celebrates untold stories of Filipino nurses in NHS (25/06/2023)
‘Long ignored’ but crucial workers honoured in touring show marking 75 years of the health service.
ReadThe Guardian – The Guardian view on Windrush at 75: joy and pain (23/06/2023)
Immigration is part of Britain’s past and should be remembered. Earlier this year a home was found in the City of London for a Migration Museum, marking the end of a 10-year search.
ReadIt’s Nice That – Migration Museum film highlights essential role of migrant workers in NHS (20/06/2023)
As the NHS turns 75, the Migration Museum teams with director Emmanuel Sugo for Speak, featuring the perspectives of seven first and second-generation migrant NHS workers.
Londonist – 10 Things To Do And See At The London Festival Of Architecture 2023 (25/05/2023)
Get stuck into creative workshops and discover stories of Lewisham’s vibrant and culturally diverse communities at The Places That Make Us, a free day of fun at the Migration Museum. Help make memory maps with artist Kim Chin, see a film about the borough’s self-build movement, and learn all about Mr Pink’s legendary house.
ReadSouth London Press – The Migration Museum exhibits new installation as part of Windrush anniversary celebrations (08/04/2023)
The Migration Museum in Lewisham is exhibiting a new installation by multi-disciplinary artist, Evewright, as part of Windrush 75th anniversary celebrations.
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