Event
MiQua meets DOMiD
10 July 2025
MiQua and the Museum Selma have a number of things in common: Both emerged from the initiative of an association and are still under construction, but are already focussing on participation before they open.
News & Events
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Exhibition, News
The millionth. Of people and thwarted plans
To mark International Museum Day, we are today presenting our online exhibition ‘The millionth. Of people and thwarted plans’. The theme of the exhibition is how plans were thwarted by unforeseeable events.
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News, Migration museum, Museum construction
Industrial hall meets cultural building: this is what Museum Selma should look like one day
Where steel sheets were once cast and rolled, a pioneering cultural building will be constructed in the coming years on behalf of DOMiD: the Museum Selma. Another important milestone on the way to this venue has now been reached.
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.
