“With more than 7000 visitors a month, the Migration Museum has made an impact and generated relevant cultural experiences among people from the neighbouring area and the regular visitors to the shopping centre. What happened? Well, the museum moved into a space that people already visited, and if we had to choose a popular space full of movement, variety and diversity, a shopping centre may well be just the spot.”

An AFP feature on the reliance of the NHS on immigrants in the run-up to the UK’s general election featured our Heart of the Nation exhibition, including an interview with the Migration Museum’s Matthew Plowright.

The City of London Corporation has won the national ‘Planning Permission of the Year’ at the prestigious Planning Awards 2024, recognising its decision to approve a mixed-use scheme at 65 Crutched Friars by Dominus which will include a new permanent home for the Migration Museum in the Square Mile.

Chris Hayward, the Policy Chairman of the City of London, highlights the Migration Museum as a key plank of the City’s new plans for the Square Mile.

Columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown cites our Heart of the Nation exhibition in an opinion piece for the i.

“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.”

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 

“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.”

Museums + Heritage Advisor featured the opening of our Heart of the Nation exhibition at the Migration Museum in Lewisham in its Museum Moves round-up.

BBC Look North featured our Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS exhibition at the Migration Museum Leeds Pop-Up, including interviews with exhibition contributor Gloria Hanley and the Migration Museum’s Harriet Costello. It also aired on BBC Breakfast.

Jay Rayner and guests recommended the Migration Museum as part of this BBC Radio 4 Kitchen Cabinet episode from Lewisham. 

An article on our Heart of the Nation exhibition at our Leeds pop-up, featuring an interview with story contributors Dr Arnab and Dr Sunita Seal.

An exhibition marking the 75th anniversary of the NHS opened in Leeds last Friday.

BBC Radio Leeds reporter Oliver Woodcock visited the Migration Museum’s Leeds Pop-Up on its opening day and spoke to our Artistic Director Aditi Anand.

The Migration Museum is opening Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS, a national touring exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary year of the National Health Service (NHS), at its new pop-up museum in Trinity Leeds shopping centre on Friday 10 November 2023.

The Migration Museum is opening Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS, a national touring exhibition to mark the 75th anniversary year of the National Health Service (NHS), at its new pop-up museum in Trinity Leeds shopping centre on Friday 10 November 2023.

The Migration Museum is a delightful surprise in a Lewisham shopping mall: an informative, generous tonic which proclaims the many experiences of migration to this green and pleasant land.

A Vogue Italia article features the Migration Museum in Lewisham.

“When I saw the announcement about Heart of the Nation, a new exhibition highlighting the foundational contributions of migrant healthcare workers to the NHS in celebration of its 75th birthday, I was immediately interested in the role of the children of healthcare workers in gathering up their parents’ stories.”