‘For all the talk about “immigrants” and “foreigners,” the country has never had a real conversation about the role of migration in shaping Britain. That is set to change with the opening of the Migration Museum in London, a bold new addition to Britain’s cultural landscape that seeks to tell the story of how migration has shaped Britain across the ages.’

‘It has been a long time coming, but Britain is finally getting an institution that reflects the heritage of its entire people.’

An op-ed written by our chair, Barbara Roche: ‘As immigration minister I visited the world’s migration museums and wondered why we had none. Finally we have one, and it couldn’t have come at a more important time.’

BBC South East Today ran a feature on our Migration Museum at The Workshop on its evening bulletin, with a particular focus on our Call Me By My Name exhibition. Click the link below to watch the video.

With national and international politics both drawing increasing attention to immigration, it’s the perfect time for London to get its own small museum dedicated to migration.

‘The ambitious museum brings new perspective to a city shaped by immigrants.’

The new museum seeks to humanize the way people think about migration in the UK.

The opening of our Migration Museum at The Workshop featured on Amanpour, CNN International’s flagship global affairs interview program hosted by Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour.

‘A new London museum aims to go beyond the stereotypical views of refugees and migration usually found in the media, says Rosamund Urwin.’

From this week London gets a new Migration Museum. It’s starting out in a temporary home but the hope is that within a couple of years it will move to a permanent base. The director is a former immigration judge, who says almost all of us have a migration story somewhere in our family background.

The project aims to provide context to frenzied political debate.

‘The museum will open this month and explore how the movement of people has shaped British history.’

The Migration Museum Project, an organisation set up to make the case for a permanent migration museum in Britain, has secured an exhibition space in Lambeth, south London.

‘The Migration Museum Project recently secured a central London location to use as a pop-up space, but the idea is to build a base in the capital and also partner with other museums across the country, so that its collections themselves would be migratory.’

See the enormous French migrant camp known as the Jungle through the eyes of the people who live there.

‘A new exhibition on the quiet resilience of the people stuck in that Anglo-French limbo – Call Me By My Name, which recently opened at the Londonewcastle Project Space in Shoreditch, east London – highlights again the way in which inflammatory abstractions (“Immigration chaos!”; “Take back control!”) can trounce ordinary human responses.’

‘Images of people living in make-shift shelters, mud and squalor, have exposed the world to the living conditions in Calais’s refugee camp, known as “the Jungle”. But despite intense media coverage over the past year, it can be hard for outsiders to gain a true perspective on life in the camp, which has become a town in its own right.

For this reason, architect Shahed Saleem embarked on a project to map the Jungle… The finished work is being shown in London, as part of a wider exhibition by the Migration Museum Project on the refugee crisis in Europe running through June 22.’

Metro featured Call Me By My Name in its To Do List column.

Migration is a hot news topic, currently playing a big part in determining whether people vote to remain or leave the EU. Call me by my name in Shoreditch has arrived to remind us that these migrants are all human beings, with individual stories to tell.

The Migration Museum Project – which is campaigning for a British museum to celebrate the diversity of migration- has put on an amazing exhibition on life at the Calais Jungle that is both uplifting and harrowing at the same time. Go see it if you can.