ITV Tonight – Immigration: Who Do We Let In? (15/11/2018)
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).
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The Hindu – Room to Breathe opens at London’s Migration Museum (09/11/2018)
“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.”
Eastern Eye – Exhibition explores stories of migrants creating lives in Britain (08/11/2018)
“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.”
Londonist – ***** for Room to Breathe (07/11/2018)
“This is an ambitious immersive exhibition and it’s truly fantastic.”