In this week's #MigrationStories

Mark Steel really made us chuckle in the latest episode of his BBC Radio 4 stand-up show — a real comedy love letter to Lewisham 💛 Have a listen: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Thanks for the shout-out, Mark — we really miss Lewisham!

🔨 Permanent Home Loading... Our permanent home, currently under construction (pictured below!), is set to open at the start of 2028, in the heart of the City of London! Here is a sneak peak of the progress so far 👀

Looking for a book to get lost in this Autumn? This Black History Month we have hand-picked seven stories of love, history and identity to get you through the colder months. (You’ll find all seven titles pictured above.) Browse them all and more in our online shop 🔗 bit.ly/4ocv7H4

Dr Arnab & Dr Sunita Seal, like many South Asians across the UK today, are celebrating Diwali. 🪔 While Diwali holds different meanings across faiths and communities, it is united in its symbol of light overcoming darkness. You can see these symbols appear in Dr Arnab's personal story below 👇

In this week's #MigrationStories

🧡 Join us at the Festival of Migration @beinghumanfest.bsky.social – a vibrant day of food, storytelling, performances & workshops exploring migration past, present & future. 📅 Sat 8 Nov 2025 | 11.00–17.00 📍 The Albany, Deptford | Free More: bit.ly/festival-of-...

There's still time to apply for this exciting opportunity with our friends @rcnlibraries.bsky.social 👇 Co-create an artwork with migrant & refugee nurses around the theme ‘Balikbayan Box for Nursing’ — the Filipino custom of migrant workers sending boxes of items home. #artopportunity

Do you have a migration story you'd like to share? It’s a question we’ve asked over 7,000 people across the UK. Over the coming months we will be highlighting a few story discs using #MigrationStories. One story, out of thousands, that stayed with us was…

Join us on 13 Oct at Barts North Wing, London to hear from expert speakers about the Windrush generation’s significant contributions to the NHS. #BlackHistoryMonth This event is held in partnership with Barts Health NHS Trust Archives, Barts Heritage, & Culture Mile BID. Book here: bit.ly/48fzzQQ

Love it or hate it... While most of us are familiar with Marmite's distinctive taste & iconic black and yellow jars, the migration story of how this quintessentially British spread came to be (and it's role in WW1) is not so commonly known. 📷 1921 Census of England and Wales, John Gollop

We’re looking for a Designer (or design team)! Help us bring the Migration Museum in a Box to life—a portable, interactive display + miniature architectural model that will share migration stories across the UK. Fee: up to £3k Fabrication: up to £3.5k Deadline: 21 Oct 📸 ©National Maritime Museum

👀 We’re looking for an Evaluation Consultant! Skilled in quantitative + qualitative research & evaluation reports? Join the Migration Museum to shape the final evaluation of our Collections Project. Budget: £8k | Hybrid (London/UK travel) | Deadline: 29 Sept 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us at St Paul's Cathedral earlier this month. It was a fantastic day exploring Viking history and creativity — from building boats to making badges and sharing your #MigrationStories, now part of our growing collection. #CreativeLearning #CulturalHeritage

Time is ticking to join our walking tour...

Join the Migration Museum team for a walking tour exploring the incredible stories of the generations of migrants who’ve lived, worked, and shaped the City of London. 🗓️ Sat 13 Sept 2025 🕜 1.30–3pm 📍 Starts behind the Royal Exchange, London EC3V 3LL 🔗 Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/migration-...

Join the Migration Museum on 3 September to explore how to bring diverse stories into museum collections — an event in partnership with the National Museums Liverpool. Register by 20 August via Eventbrite link: bit.ly/3HapTvK 📷 Elzbieta Piekacz

A year on from the violence directed towards people seeking sanctuary, people of colour, Muslims and others across the UK, we continue to see organised anti-immigrant protests — most recently last weekend in Epping, Essex.

Looking for summer activities in London and keen to learn more about its history through migration? The Migration Museum Walking Tour: Migration and the City of London can be booked for up to 20 people. Duration approx 90 mins. And you'll be helping the team build Britain's missing museum too. 1/2

"I stand here before you today not as an immigrant success story, but as a British success story. I am what is possible when Britain is true to its real spirit.' – George Alagiah OBE (1955-2023). George was a remarkable supporter and trustee. He spoke these words at the launch of our first venue.

As the Bayeux Tapestry prepares to return to the UK, we’re revisiting a moment from a film we commissioned for our All Our Stories exhibition — one that brings this historic artwork into conversation with stories of migration. © City of Bayeux

To hear more stories of people who have come to Britain to work in the NHS throughout its history, visit the @migrationmuseum.org digital exhibition, Heart of the Nation: buff.ly/7Pv11G1. It brings to life the experiences of some of the many people who came to Britain to help build the NHS.

Check out this new exhibition from @rcnlibraries.bsky.social showing art by & about nurses. The Art of Nursing reveals how nurses have been mythologised, usually as female, predominantly as white. It explores the role of art in constructing and resisting stereotypes: www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

On 5 July 1948, the #NHS was born. 🕯️ Ahead of tomorrow, we’re shining a light on some of the many people who came to Britain to help make this vision for a better society a reality 💙 #HeartOfTheNation

Autograph ABP are looking for three artists to lead on the creative direction and community engagement for a new project working with artists and communities with experience of displacement. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 July, 10am 🔗 Find out more: autograph.org.uk/blog/news/lead-artists-acts-of-solidarity

To mark #WindrushDay and 30 years since Coming to England by Baroness Floella Benjamin, our Learning team was proud to contribute to a nationwide schools assembly — created in collaboration with @macmillankidsuk.bsky.social and watched by thousands of pupils across the UK. 📚🌍

We hear a lot about refugees in the UK. But how much do we really know? This #RefugeeWeek, we’re reflecting on the stories we hear — and those we don’t. Headlines shape how we think about people seeking refuge, but beyond the numbers are people rebuilding their lives.

Join us on 9 July to explore how museums can engage with migration and Empire histories in nuanced, and locally relevant ways — through the lens of learning programmes and education practice. Photo: University of Greenwich #MuseumEducation #MigrationHistory #EmpireHistory #DecolonisingMuseums

Join us at the National Maritime Museum on Sat 21 June for Windrush Day. We’ll be in the ReThink space with free drop-in activities all day — part of a big celebration across the museum. More info: bit.ly/43IK2jB #WindrushDay #MigrationStories #RMG 📷 Elzbieta Piekacz

How has migration shaped UK art and culture – and what should its role in our future cultural landscape be? We convened a stellar line-up at the Guildhall to discuss: ‪@davidolusoga.bsky.social, Es Devlin, Indhu Rubasingham (@nationaltheatre.org.uk) @sathnam.bsky.social & Reeta Chakrabarti.

Our award-winning Migrant Makers Market is back online! 🎉 Shop work by 30+ migrant makers sharing migration stories through craft. Enjoy 15% off with code MMSHOPAGAIN15 🛍️ Support the museum & independent makers 💛 #ShopWithPurpose #MigrantMakers

🚶‍♀️ Walk with us through thousands of years of London history on 4 June! Join the waitlist for our FREE City Walking Tour exploring Aldgate & the City through the lens of migration. 🎟️ Sign up to the waitlist: bit.ly/4jg9P8M #LFA2025 #LondonHistory

Join our friends at the Huguenot Museum and Rochester Cathedral for #RefugeeWeek to hear a Child Migrant Voices lecture with Amber Butchart & Author Eithne Nightingale The evening will include a presentation and book signing — and books will be available to purchase. Book here: bit.ly/3FePO4f

Many congratulations to the @migrationmuseum.org front-of-house staff for winning the 2025 Museums & Heritage Awards Visitor Welcome Award! Can't wait to see the team unleashed on a permanent museum in the City of London (or, who knows, before that auspicious date, on a final temporary home).

⭐ We won the Visitor Welcome Award at the 2025 Museums + Heritage Awards! ⭐ We’re beyond proud that our Front of House team's warmth, care and curiosity has made @migrationuseum.org a space people return to — whether for a quiet moment, a deep conversation, or to explore our exhibitions.

Meet Mona, Head of Civic Engagement at the @migrationmuseum.org. In this short clip, Mona spotlights Covered in Spicy Salsa (2023) by Tanya Rojas Magdaleno — a performance piece on reconnecting with Mexican heritage & navigating identity as an “exotic foreigner” in the UK.

Are you working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or projects featuring migration history? Join us for the first event in the Migration Network series, focused on how digital tools are being used to document and share migration stories through collections work.

We're thrilled to announce that The Portal Trust has become an inaugural donor of the UK’s first permanent Migration Museum. The Portal Trust will provide £0.5 million in funding over the next three years to help us establish a permanent home in the City of London, opening in 2028.

Every family has a migration story. What ONE object represents your family story? And why? We’d love for you to share in the comments to help us think about a future collection.

Chuffed to be one of the winners of a copy of this interesting book in the @migrationmuseum.org giveaway! If you want to find out more about the book, check out this Guardian interview with the author, Nicola Kelly (on here as @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social). www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

📖 Book GIVEAWAY: We've teamed up with @eandtbooks.bsky.social to give away 3 signed copies of Anywhere But Here by @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social – out today 📖 To enter: ⭐Follow @migrationmuseum.org @eandtbooks.bsky.social & @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social ⭐Repost & tag someone who’d love this book

💙 Thank you, Lewisham! 💙 That’s a wrap on our time in Lewisham Shopping Centre after five incredible years being part of this incredible community! A huge THANK YOU to everyone who visited, contributed, and supported us.

London based? Do try to see this exhibition before it finally closes its doors in Lewisham next week. It’s opposite the Sainsbury’s in the shopping centre. Completely free and completely brilliant! #ArtForAll

The Migration Museum is open every day this week, its last full week at Lewisham Shopping Centre. If you've not yet checked out the All Our Stories and Inside/Outside & All in Between exhibitions there, this is your last chance to do so. And don't forget to purchase something in the fab shop too.

Our Artistic Director, Aditi Anand, sat down with @londonartcritic.bsky.social to talk about our art programme and the importance of migration. Whether you're new to our journey or a longtime supporter, tune in to learn more about the Migration Museum! Listen here: bit.ly/42hvxnj

Really enjoyed visiting the @migrationmuseum.org, which explores how the movement of people to and from the UK has shaped who we are.

We recorded an interview for Ep6 of @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social at @migrationmuseum.org in Lewisham Shopping Centre. It's a wonderful space and you've got only a few more days to visit before it closes on March 30th. Quick! It's free! It's great!. I especially loved the food stories and animations.

This #StPatricksDay, we honour the perseverance, determination, and enduring impact of the Irish workers who built Britain. 📸 Nine Elms Tower Block, © Homer Sykes / Alamy Stock Photo 📸 courtesy of Ultan Cowley #Construction #Emigration #Migration #MigrationMuseum #StPaddysDay #Ireland

Join us on Sat 29 March for a final celebration of our amazing Lewisham community! A day of free, creative, drop-in activities for the whole family—11am–4pm.💙 Get creative with live illustrations, frame-making, 3D paper crafts, & a special performance to kick off the day. More info: bit.ly/3XODqOt

Thanks to @platformplaces.bsky.social for featuring our journey. We're really sad to be leaving #Lewisham, but excited for what’s ahead. More to come soon… In the meantime, read the full article here: bit.ly/424brgk And find out more about our closing date and final events here: bit.ly/3DEyiFS