Press coverage
View the latest press coverage of the Migration Museum by clicking on the links below. Please visit our Press release page to view and download our latest press releases.
For image and filming requests and all other media enquiries, please contact Matthew Plowright (matthew@migrationmuseum.org, +44 7585 117 924).
BBC World Service – Iran’s Refugee Rocket Man (30/10/2017)
BBC World Service’s The Cultural Frontline featured an interview with Majid Adin, one of the contributors to our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition.
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Londonist – **** for No Turning Back (24/10/2017)
‘It’s a powerful exhibition that tells these eras through human stories, highlighting how Britain has always been a land of immigrants, and yet has always had a history of anti-immigration sentiment. Another great exhibition from this important museum.’
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London Calling – No Turning Back: Migration Museum (14/10/2017)
‘In their new exhibition ‘No Turning Back’, the Migration Museum draws attention to important moments in the history of migrant Britain, asking us to think about what has changed and what has stayed the same in our history.’
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Eastern Eye – An artistic take on migration at the Migration Museum (05/10/2017)
‘From the exhibition’s first pinpointed moment in 1290, when the entire Jewish population was expelled from England, to the first East India Company voyage to India in 1607, the project aims to educate on how migration has always existed and been part of a larger conversation within the country.’
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Time Out – Eight museum shows to fall for this autumn (25/09/2017)
No Turning Back ranked #2 on Time Out’s list of the best museum exhibitions in London this autumn.
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CNN – Unions, migration and street art: A people’s history of London (21/09/2017)
Our Migration Museum at The Workshop featured by CNN as one of six stops on a “people’s history” tour of London.
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Huffington Post: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain (20/09/2017)
Barbara Roche, our chair, writing in the Huffington Post, explains why our No Turning Back exhibition encapsulates what the Migration Museum for Britain that we are creating is all about – providing a cultural space for exploration of how immigration and emigration across the ages has shaped who we are today as individuals, and as a nation.
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Newsweek – Meet the woman making a point about race by photographing every human skin tone (19/09/2017)
An interview with Angélica Dass, whose Humanae project forms part of our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition.
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Positive News – Migration nation: exhibition highlights key moments that have shaped Britain (13/09/2017)
‘Amid uncertainty about the movement of people to and from the UK following the EU referendum, an exhibition presents pivotal moments in the nation’s migration history.’
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El Diario – Un museo de Londres quiere “devolver el nombre” a los migrantes (05/08/2017)
‘Desde el pasado mes de abril, el barrio de Lambeth acoge el primer Museo de las Migraciones en el Reino Unido. El Museo de las Migraciones de Londres invita a humanizar el relato sobre los migrantes más allá de la escena política y mediática actual.’
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The Hindu – Saris, cardigans and the writing on the wall (15/07/2017)
‘What’s often overlooked is the reality of the migrant experience, steeped in ordinariness, and the cultural contributions that different diaspora groups have brought to the U.K. It’s this subject that the first exhibition by the Migration Museum, titled ‘100 Images of Migration’, seeks to show, especially in a post-Brexit country.
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Pacific Standard – The UK’s first migration museum wants to remind visitors of a not-so-distant past (11/07/2017)
‘In the wake of Brexit, a new museum is encouraging visitors to remember their country’s rich migration history.’
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Pune Mirror – Showcasing Ethnoscapes (09/07/2017)
‘The new Migration Museum in London may just put an end to Britain’s bloodline snobbery.’
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Museums Journal – Home and Away: How Museums are telling stories of migration (01/07/2017)
‘Museums are working hard to create a deeper understanding of migration.’ (Subscription required to read the article)
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Vice – The Refugee Who Smuggled Himself Out of Camps and into ‘Rocket Man’ (23/06/2017)
‘The incredible true story of 31-year-old Majid Adin, an Iranian refugee animator behind a viral music video for one of Elton John’s most classic jams.’
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Reuters Facebook Live – A history of migration (22/06/2017)
‘According to the UN Refugee Agency, more than the entire population of the UK was forcibly displaced at the end of 2016. We are Facebook Live from the Migration Museum Project speaking with Professor Sir Richard Evans on the history of migration.’
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Scroll India – Punjabi aunties to gypsies: London’s Migration Museum challenges the idea of Britishness (21/06/2017)
‘It tells the ‘under-represented story’ of migrants and how they have shaped the British identity.’
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de Volkskrant – Londen krijgt een permanent migratiemuseum (alleen nog even een plek vinden) (12/06/2017)
‘Over Hugenoten, Jamaicanen en Syriërs; een nieuw migratiemuseum in Londen. Nu alleen nog zoeken naar een permanente vestigingsplaats.’
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Positive News – New museum puts migration at the heart of Britain’s story (06/06/2017)
‘As migration sits at the centre of current debates concerning Britain’s identity and place in the world, the UK’s first dedicated museum about migration opens its doors.’
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France 2 TV – Après New York et Paris, Londres ouvre enfin son “musée des migrations” (19/05/2017)
Londres, capitale cosmopolite. Pourtant, le projet de “musée des migrations” se cherchait un toit depuis trois ans. Il vient d’investir les murs d’une ancienne caserne de pompiers, dans l’attente d’un emplacement définitif. Les migrations, un thème omniprésent dans l’espace public, que ce nouveau lieu culturel souhaite mettre en perspective, en retraçant l’histoire des immigrés et émigrés qui ont façonné la Grande-Bretagne.
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