Migration Museum

The Migration Museum is partnering with @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social , and seeking 2x Community Curators to explore themes of migration and food as part of an upcoming UK-wide programme.

The Community Curators programme will bring diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of the Migration Museum – a new national museum opening in 2028. Our Community Curators will co-produce a creative output exploring migration stories in the local area.

The Migration Museum is partnering with @museumfreederry.bsky.social, and seeking 2x Community Curators to explore themes of migration and language (inclusive of Irish language) as part of an upcoming UK-wide programme.

The Community Curators programme will bring diverse voices, lived experiences, and perspectives into the creation of the Migration Museum – a new national museum opening in 2028. Our Community Curators will co-produce a creative output exploring migration stories in the local area.

⏳ Just 2 weeks left to apply! The Migration Museum is looking for 10 Community Curators across the UK to co-curate displays exploring local migration stories. 💷 Paid (£20/hr) 🗓️ Sept 2026–May 2027 📍 Apply here: www.migrationmuseum.org/join-the-mig... Help shape the UK’s Missing Museum!

You’ll receive training and partner with local venues like @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social , @balticgateshead.bsky.social , @museumfreederry.bsky.social , Glasgow Life & @notjustabattle.bsky.social to research and build community-led exhibitions. No museum experience needed.

Major funding secured! 🏛️💛 We’re thrilled to share that the @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social has committed £600,000 as a Founding Partner to help make our new permanent home in the City of London a reality. We're one step closer to bringing the UK’s missing museum to life in Spring 2028! 🧵👇 📸 Unknown Works

Our new museum will challenge perceptions of what a museum can be – surprising and delighting through relevant, resonant and unexpected experiences, with personal stories at its heart.

Major funding secured! 🏛️💛 We’re thrilled to share that the @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social has committed £600,000 as a Founding Partner to help make our new permanent home in the City of London a reality. We're one step closer to bringing the UK’s missing museum to life in Spring 2028! 🧵👇 📸 Unknown Works

Know a young Londoner (14-19 y/o) with big ideas? 🏛️✨ @migrationmuseum.org is looking for 10 passionate young people to join our paid Young People’s Panel. You'll help shape events programming and the way we work with young people in our new museum!👇

Want a taste of our deep-dive tours? This June, we’re partnering with London Festival of Architecture for an exclusive 1-hour walking tour uncovering the incredible stories of the migrants that have lived, worked and left their mark on the City of London. Spaces fill up fast! Dates & links below 👇

Calling all teachers, educators, learners – and anyone who wants to engage with themes of migration sensitively and with confidence: We are delighted to share our new Teaching Migration History Toolkit, co-produced with @britishlibrary.bsky.social.

Tickets going fast! 🔥 Join our popular Migrant Women walking tour: from the City to the East End. Previously sold-out and back by demand, this tour is led by Tawana, one of our interns who is behind the research and development of this tour! 🧵 Find out more: www.migrationmuseum.org/events/migra...

A museum only exists through the stories it holds. To make sure ours belongs to everyone, we’re building it with the people who live them. 🏛️✨ Meet our People's Panel: www.migrationmuseum.org/newpeoplespa... A selection of People's Panel Portraits: Elzbieta Piekacz

Supported by @citybridgefndn.bsky.social this project brings together over 50 brilliant individuals with lived experience & connections from the City of London, Tower Hamlets, and Lewisham. They will act as a "critical friends" to ensure the museum truly reflects the people it serves.

Last month we celebrated a major milestone: the topping out of our future home at 65 Crutched Friars. This was a special construction marker and an occasion to recognise that Britain’s first permanent Migration Museum is now moving from vision to reality! Photos: Mike O’Dwyer

We are grateful to our partner and developers, Dominus whose own leadership by Sukhpal Ahluwalia reflects a migration story of entrepreneurship and contribution. Thank you also to the team at McAleer & Rushe who are delivering the building and to the City of London who awarded planning permission.

Last month we celebrated a major milestone: the topping out of our future home at 65 Crutched Friars. This was a special construction marker and an occasion to recognise that Britain’s first permanent Migration Museum is now moving from vision to reality! Photos: Mike O’Dwyer

At a time when migration is too often discussed through the language of crisis and division, we will offer a place for shared stories, learning, and representation. Our museum will recognise that migration is not a footnote to British history, but part of the stories and tapestries of all of us.

Explore queerness, migration & heritage with Imogen Patel in a Design Your Own Identity Postcard workshop. Define how you wish to be seen — send the postcard to yourself or someone else. 📍 Part of our Queer Migration Stories pop-up at the Royal Maritime Museum’s Fierce Queens evening.

These are a few of the many personal stories shared with us by visitors and exhibition contributors that are connected to the Holocaust and where persecution led in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

We collect these stories to create space for reflection on how lives and families have been shaped by migration, and the lasting impact of this history. We invite you to share your own migration story in the comments below.

⭐ Free workshops for Tower Hamlets schools! ⭐ We're excited to offer free workshops for KS2-5 students and teacher training. If you’d like to find out more, you can email our Learning Manager tia@migrationmuseum. This initiative is generously funded by the Aldgate & Allhallows Foundation.

Celebrate LGBTQIA+ history month with the Migration Museum and Royal Museums Greenwich this February! Dive into chosen families, queer family trees and identity postcards in an exciting evening of storytelling and creativity.

We are excited to be participating in the 'Fierce Queens: Unframed, Unstitched... Unapologetic!' programme, which includes: a full cabaret show with drag king and queen Adam All and Apple Derries. stories from the Queer History Club and a gallery takeover by Bold Mellon Collective