News, Museum construction, Migration museum
The Museum Selma will not be built at the planned site in Cologne-Kalk. The museum construction cannot be realised within the existing budget at the former industrial hall. A possible new site in Cologne city centre is now to be considered.
News, Job Offers, Migration museum
22 March 2026
We are advertising an attractive position for our planned Museum Selma: we are looking for a construction project manager to play a key role in the implementation of our exciting museum project.
News, Migration museum
The former President of the Bundestag and CDU Federal Minister paved the way for social change in many respects, including an understanding of Germany as a country of immigration. She has now passed away at the age of 88.
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.
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.
The migrant knowledge has not been taken into account for decades, although it has always been and remains an expertise on racism. Now this knowledge has a museum.İbrahim Arslan, activist and survivor of the racist arson attack of Mölln 1992
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.
