BBC Ideas – The Myth of Race (27/01/2021)
The Migration Museum and our Humanae exhibition featured in a BBC Ideas video unpacking the myth of a biological basis for categorising humans by race.
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The Migration Museum and our Humanae exhibition featured in a BBC Ideas video unpacking the myth of a biological basis for categorising humans by race.
ReadThe British Journal of GPs reviews our Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS digital exhibition.
ReadAn in-depth BBC News feature on our Departures exhibition, featuring an interview with its curator and our head of creative content Aditi Anand.
ReadThe Migration Museum’s head of creative content, Aditi Anand, and exhibition contributor Allyson Williams MBE speak to Jo Good on BBC Radio London about Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS.
ReadDr Raj Khanchandani, a contributor to the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation exhibition, speaks to BBC Three Counties Radio.
ReadDeutsche Welle interviewed our projects manager Andrew Steeds, who oversaw our Germans in Britain exhibition, for an article on the uncertainty facing Germans in the UK as the Brexit deadline looms.
ReadEastern Eye covered Heart of the Nation, including an interview with its curator and our head of creative content Aditi Anand.
ReadThe Evening Standard selected our Departures podcast in its list of recommendations of music and podcasts to listen to.
ReadFAD magazine featured our Heart of the Nation exhibition in its list of the top 5 online art exhibitions to see during lockdown.
Readi columnist Ian Birrell highlights the Migration Museum and our Football Moves People campaign.
Read“The Migration Museum in London this week produced a poster showing what England’s semi-final side would have looked like if players with a parent or grandparent born abroad were excluded: Just three of the original starting 11 remained.”
ReadYasmin Alibhai-Brown writes: “An exhibition at the Migration Museum in London challenges our views on migrants, from the pitiful to the highly privileged… It will reopen after lockdown and should be seen by one and all.”
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A feature on Heart of the Nation in i-D magazine, featuring interviews with some of the NHS workers from around the world who contributed their stories to the exhibition.
ReadDaniel Trilling writes about his visit to the Migration Museum and our Departures exhibition in the London Review of Books
ReadMetro featured the Migration Museum’s Heart of the Nation exhibition on its What’s On this Week Events page.
Read“Today this England team has made Englishness and patriotism itself an idea not that some of us are ashamed of but that all of us can be proud.”
ReadA Museum Crush feature on Heart of the Nation, including an interview with exhibition curator and our head of creative content Aditi Anand.
ReadOur Migration Museum in the heart of Lewisham Shopping Centre was featured as a case study in a Museums Journal feature on how museums can play a role in the transformation of Britain’s high streets (requires Museums Association membership to view)
ReadOur Head of Learning and Partnerships Emily Miller writes in the Museums Journal on the role that museums can play in being forums for conversation away from our increasingly polarised public discourse
Read‘A Lewisham museum has launched a new digital exhibition shining a light on the 72-year history of migrants working in the NHS.’
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