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The DOMiD museum tells the story of the migration society.

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DOMiDLabs

In the DOMiDLabs: Labs for participatory museum design project, different people came together in four labs. They developed design concepts on various topics, which are being tested for the Selma Museum.

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News & Events

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    News, Movies, Collection

    Film documentary “The Moelln Letters” celebrates its world premiere

    14 February 2025 – 22 February 2025

    The documentary “The Mölln Letters” celebrates its world premiere at the 75th Berlinale. The bereaved of the 1992 Mölln attack only found out about the many hundreds of letters of solidarity decades later. They are kept at DOMiD.

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    News, Workshop, Education & Mediation

    Workshop offer: "Remembering stories of refuge - acting today"

    14 February 2025 – 15 February 2025

    Together with the Alter Schlachthof memorial site, we are offering a training course on remembering the history(ies) of flight. From February 14 to 15, 2025, we will link historical and contemporary perspectives on migration and flight.

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    News, Job Offers, Migration museum

    Museum Selma is coming and the DOMiD team is growing

    We have advertised three attractive positions in different departments for our planned Museum Selma.

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Museum Selma

Über 30 Jahre setzte sich DOMiD für ein bundesweites Migrationsmuseum ein.
Ab 2029 wird es Wirklichkeit: Museum Selma

DOMiD has been campaigning for a nationwide migration museum for over 30 years. From 2029, it will become a reality: Museum Selma.

Based on the DOMiD collection, a unique cultural venue will be created that tells the story of our migration society. Follow the progress of the museum project!

The book is available for download as a free e-book, as well as for purchase as a hardcover.

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Our collection

Photo: Dietrich Hackenberg/DOMiD-Archive, Cologne

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.

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Source: Jussi Puikkonen/KNAW
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.

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