15 May, 2018
From November 2016 to November 2017, we coordinated the pilot year of the Migration Museums Network, generously funded by Arts Council England and Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
This network pilot aimed to increase and improve outputs associated with migration and related themes in museums and galleries across the UK. Various activities met these aims: a widespread online survey about migration themes in our sector was completed by 119 respondents from a range of institutions across the UK. We delivered a report, co-authored by Dr Cathy Ross and Emma Shapiro on the status of migration themes across the sector; updating previous research from 2009 with lots of new information and highlights. We also held two events in the autumn of 2017, focused on sharing best practice, highlighting case studies and facilitating partnerships across the sector. One was at the British Museum in London with 80 delegates; the other was at the Discovery Museum in Newcastle with 40 delegates. Thanks to all those who participated in the events.
Evaluation of the pilot was positive, with participants expressing strong demand for an information-sharing network on migration themes and giving positive feedback on the two events held to date. The overwhelming majority of survey respondents and delegates expressed a clear desire to be part of a Migration Museums Network, and to share contact and project details, via Network events, and online.
For more information and to read the report, survey and evaluation findings in full, please click on the links below:
Download and read the Migration Museums Network 2017 Evaluation report
Download and read the report on the Migration Museums Network survey results 2017
Download and read the Museums and Migration 2009-17 report
To find out more about the pilot of the Migration Museums Network and explore possible next steps for this network, please contact our Head of Learning and Partnerships Emily Miller: Emily@migrationmuseum.org
22 March, 2019
Photograph of Ching Hook in fighting attitude. One of three photographs of boxers registered in April 1888 by East End photographer Harry Carpenter (1860–1906).
1 May, 2018
Dr Nadia Valman has been awarded the Hawking Award for Developed Understanding of Public Engagement for her collaboration with the Migration Museum Project on ‘Migrant Literature Walks’ in 2017 and 2018.
Dr Valman, a literary historian at Queen Mary University of London, has developed and led the series of four guided walks exploring London through the eyes of migrant writers from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1960s. The walks drew on Dr Valman’s research on London’s rich history of migrant writers to explore the complex feelings experienced by writers new to the metropolis, and to give participants new perspectives on familiar streets and landmarks. She has run the series twice and all walks have proved extremely popular – all have been fully subscribed within days.
Named after Lucy Hawking, novelist and daughter of Stephen Hawking, the award reflects Lucy’s qualities of reflexive, cooperative working, and her understanding of how to bring together research and engagement; this award is given to an individual to acknowledge their own critical thinking in the field of public engagement.
We are delighted that Dr Valman has been recognised for developing and leading these walks. We have collaborated with Nadia for several years – she has also advised and been a guide on both of our annual Imprints fundraising walks across London to date – and very much hope to continue collaborating with her on walks and activities aimed at fostering greater public engagement in the future.
Congratulations Nadia!
Read more about Dr Valman’s Migrant Literature Walks here:
Rediscovering Rosemary Lane: Irish Migrants in Victorian London
Fragments of Jewish Whitechapel
Colonials in the Metropole: Migrant Bloomsbury
Left Luggage: Reading Sam Selvon in Waterloo Station
Image: Dr Nadia Valman receives the Hawking award from Queen Mary University of London’s Vice Principal for Public Engagement, Professor Peter McOwan
16 April, 2018
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE. FOR EDUCATION ENQUIRIES, PLEASE CONTACT OUR EDUCATION OFFICER
2 May 2018 | 4pm–7pm (Wed-Sun, late opening last Thurs of each month)
Migration Museum at The Workshop
26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG
To attend, please email: liberty@migrationmuseum.org
We are hosting a teachers’ evening on Wednesday 2 May 2018.
Teachers from across London and the UK are invited to the Migration Museum at The Workshop to find out all about our education programme related to our current exhibition No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain.
This event is primarily aimed at primary and secondary school teachers, but university and college lecturers are also very welcome to attend. If you or a teacher you know would like to come along or have any questions relating to this event or our education programme, please email our education officer, Liberty Melly, at: liberty@migrationmuseum.org
To view and download our teaching resources relating to No Turning Back, please visit our resource bank.
Image © Migration Museum Project
