Participation, Call for Participation
For everyone living in and around Cologne, there will be an exciting opportunity starting in September 2026 to explore (their own) stories of migration. Cologne Story Labs brings together people with and without migration backgrounds.
News, Migration museum, Museum construction
Anyone who would like to show their support for Museum Selma can now do so in a very concrete way: The independent initiative “Museum Selma bleibt,” which advocates for our museum, has launched an online petition.
Migration museum, Museum construction, News
Investigations show the cultural centre at Neumarkt will not host the Museum Selma. DOMiD is therefore exploring establishing the museum at its original site, Halle 70 in Cologne‑Kalk, by making significant budget-related cuts.
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.
