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 London – Hundreds take part in art march to London Migration Museum (25/03/2018)
A BBC London news story on Moving Hearts, a collaboration between the Migration Museum Project, artist Penny Ryan and Professor Anna Reading and Dr James Bjork from King’s College London.
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BBC Newsnight – Where does the rise of identity politics leave people of mixed race? (08/03/2018)
BBC Two’s Newsnight programme explored the complexities of the term ‘mixed race’ and whether people of a mixed race heritage identify with it, filmed at the Migration Museum at The Workshop and featuring works from our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition.
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Little India – No Turning Back (22/02/2018)
‘As Britain stands poised for momentous change that will affect its relationship with the world, the exhibition explores seven key “migration moments” from British history, to show that this is not the first time that the movement of peoples from one place to another has had a profound effect on the country.’
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Mashable – At the Empathy Museum you literally walk a mile in someone else’s shoes (22/02/2018)
‘On a bright, cold February morning in London, I put on shoes that belonged to perfect strangers and went walking.’
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Evening Standard – The Empathy Museum invites Londoners into a giant shoebox to hear migrant stories (09/02/2018)
An Evening Standard article on the Empathy Museum’s A Mile in My Shoes – Migration, which accompanied our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition.
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BBC Culture – The artist who reveals our Pantone shades (07/11/2017)
A BBC Culture feature on Angélica Dass, whose Humanae project forms part of our No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain exhibition. The video features behind-the-scenes footage of the project in London.
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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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