Migration Museum wins Best Shop and Rising Star awards at the Cultural Enterprises Awards 2024

The Migration Museum’s shop has won two more awards at this year’s Cultural Enterprises Awards.

Our Migrant Makers Market, which champions products made by migrant-led brands and creatives, was awarded Best Shop, while our Retail Manager Katy Clinch brought home the Rising Star award. Last year, our Migrant Makers Market won the People’s Choice award. 

Our Migrant Makers Market, designed by spatial designer Studio Lucy Sanderson, has recently reopened and features a wider range of products made by migrant-led makers and brands than ever before. It provides a much-needed platform for underrepresented makers, brands and businesses that otherwise aren’t available in high street spaces. Take a closer look and among the products you will discover the stories of the entrepreneurs behind them. 

Announcing the award for Best Shop, the judges said: “An innovative and inclusive space which looks amazing and works with the museum ethos – an exciting way to approach cultural retail.”

Awarding the Rising Star award to our Retail Manager, Katy Clinch, the judges said: “Katy is a team player and inclusive leader who champions professional and personal development and is an ambassador for retail across the sector.”

Our Migrant Makers Market was designed by spatial designer Studio Lucy Sanderson,  chosen to create the space following an open call to local artists and designers in 2022. 

“The Migrant Makers Market’s spatial design is influenced by the design language of UK high streets, markets, and shopping centres, as well as the borough of Lewisham’s blue and yellow brand identity honouring its home in the heart of Lewisham. The design pays homage to iconic brands, many of which were created by immigrants, while celebrating and providing a platform for future migrant-founded brands and businesses.” – Lucy Sanderson, founder of Studio Lucy Sanderson and designer of the Migrant Makers Market.

You can explore our award-winning Migrant Makers Market by visiting us in-store or online. 

Congratulations to everyone who was shortlisted for these awards and to all of the other winners – it was inspiring to see so many incredible ranges and so much creativity on display. 

Top image: Katy Clinch, Retail Manager at the Migration Museum, with the two awards at the Cultural Enterprises Awards 2023
Migrant Makers Market images: photos by Sopo Ramischwili

Daily Mirror – Real Britain (15/03/24)

“Inside a shopping centre, a packed exhibition is celebrating the contribution of thousands of immigrants to building the National Health Service. To mark the NHS’s 75th birthday, the Migration Museum in South East London has gathered documents, photographs, memories, and objects from midwifery badges to nurses’ uniforms, to write migrant health-workers back into our national history.”

BBC Radio London – The Robert Elms Show (09/03/2024)

Our Artistic Director Aditi Anand and exhibition contributor Allyson Williams MBE were special guests on the Robert Elms show on BBC Radio London to talk about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS 

Time Out – Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS (29/02/2024)

“This multimedia exhibition at the Migration Museum in Lewisham delves into the history of the NHS, and to the many dedicated non-British-born workers who have contributed to it. Through photography, artefacts, and a newly commissioned interactive music video installation, their stories are lovingly told. It’s a wonderful way to gain some insight into how working for such a precious but pressured organisation has impacted their lives.”