Setting Off to New Shores

The German Emigration Center Now Also Presents 300 Years of Immigration History

How do emigrants become immigrants? How do they settle in a new home country? And how do the children of immigrants and subsequent generations fare? As of 22 April 2012, the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven provides answers to these and many other questions. With the opening of its major extension focusing on 300 years of immigration history the museum, founded in 2005, has now become the first migration museum in Germany, and in Europe

Grand Opening of our extension wing

On Saturday, April 21, 2012

We celebrated the grand opening of our new exhibition wing. Amongst others, we welcomed the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media Bernd Neumann, the Australian Ambassador Peter Tesch, the U.S. Consul General Inmi Patterson, the Italian General Consul Gianpaolo Ceprini as well as Mayor Jens Böhrnsen, President of the Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, the Senator for Economic Affairs, Employment and Ports of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen Martin Günthner, and the Lord Mayor of the City of Bremerhaven Melf Grantz. The German Emigration Center is now the first migration museum in Germany. Apart from the historic emigration to the New World it also presents 300 years of immigration to Germany by telling the stories of 15 families who have come to Germany since the 17th century. Here

Here you will find some impressions of the grand opening.

New "News“ Released

The annual publication is out now.

"Moving stories.“ This is the title of the latest "news" issue, which was released in a new format on the occasion of the opening of the new wing last weekend. It features people, setting out to new shores in search for a new homeland - moving stories. The „news“ is available free of charge in our foyer or can be downloaded here