Support the Migration Museum Project

(The logo being used to promote the Migration Museum Project (UK), from The Free Movement Blog - http://freemovement.wordpress.com/)


A distinguished team of migration experts including former government minister and MP, Barbara Roche, the director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, Danny Sriskandarajah, and the deputy director of the Museum of Liverpool, Zelda Baveystock, to name but a few, are backing a project aiming to establish Britain’s first major migration museum. The museum will seek to address the question of ‘who we are, where we come from, and where we are going to’ and in so, aiming to be ‘the museum of all our stories.’ To read more about this fantastic project and to back the bid, please visit: http://www.migrationmuseum.org/

You can also support the project by entering the ‘100 images of migration competition’ launched by the Guardian newspaper. Upload your photos celebrating and exploring the richness British migration here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/may/04/migration-museum-photography-competition

The migration museum project website already includes various archived images on the theme of Polish migration in the UK, including the touching image of a woman holding a Polish bible taken by the imminent photojournalist Tim Smith. (Tim Smith and Michelle Winslow produced an excellent photojournal called ‘Keeping the Faith- the Polish community in Britain’ in 2000: learn more about the publication here - http://www.timsmithphotos.com/books/index.html or purchase a copy from Amazon at: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Keeping-Faith-Polish-Community-Britain/dp/090773457X).

You’ll also be able to view the certificate of nationality issued to Juda Herse Phiszer, a Polish born umbrella maker in 1920; an image that has been kindly contributed by the Museum of London.

Lastly, here's a link to the Melbourne Immigration Museum website: http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum. I visited the museum a few times during my stay in Australia and like to think of the museum as having fuelled my own academic interest the migration experience.