Event, News, Collection
Black History Month Guided Tour: A journey through Black history in our collection
26 February 2026
DOMiD is also a place of Black history. Using selected objects, the history of Black people in Germany becomes tangible.
News & Events
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News, Exhibition, Event
„Makkaroni Settanta – Esperimento collettivo“: Exhibition enters its final weekend
07 December 2025 – 11 January 2026
Seventy years ago, Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany signed the recruitment agreement that heralded the era of ‘guest workers’. Our cooperation partner Makkaroni Akademie is hosting an exhibition on this topic in Cologne until 11 January.
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Migration museum, Museum construction, News
Architectural draft honoured: DOMiD's Migration Museum wins prestigious award
A reason to celebrate for DOMiD's Migration Museum: the architectural draft for the Museum Selma has been awarded a prestigious design prize.
Our collection
Photo: Dietrich Hackenberg/DOMiD-Archive, Cologne
DOMiD collects and conserves material which documents migration history. Furthermore, we believe it is our duty to research and present the history of migration in Germany to a wide audience. In addition to our museological and archival work, we organize events, conferences and talks. Our goal is to convey that migration is a norm in human history. We believe this perspective can provide a basis for developing a shared, transcultural identity.
Found some treasures in your attic or basement?
If you are in possesion of material that you think may be relevant to migration history, we would love to hear from you! Become a donor.
Only those things that are displayed in museums, embodied in memorials, and found in school books have the chance to be passed on to future generations.Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Aleida Assmann, Peace Prize Winner of the German Book Trade
Migration history in pictures
Migration has left a lasting mark on our society. In the motif series "Migration History in Pictures" we have selected objects from the DOMiD collection that stand for certain phenomena of migration history since 1945. In short, richly illustrated online stories, we tell how migrants have influenced the history of Germany.
