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More than 30 years ago, DOMiD was founded in Essen. Read more about our history.
The DOMiD archive in Cologne-Ehrenfeld covers around 1,000 square metres. With the establishment of a migration museum, this area will be significantly increased.
The nationwide unique collection includes over 150,000 exhibits on the history of migration in Germany.
17 employees (salaried and freelance) currently work at the Cologne office.
This is the sum that the federal government and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have earmarked in their budgets as investment funds for the "Haus der Einwanderungsgesellschaft (old working title: now Museum Selma).
According to the current schedule, the Museum Selma is scheduled to open this year.
The Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD), is a non-profit association founded by migrants in 1990. DOMiD is home to Germany's largest collection of objects and testimonies documenting the diverse history of migration in Germany. The ongoing collection grew out of civil society and currently includes more than 150,000 social, cultural and everyday history exhibits. With exhibitions, publications and events, DOMiD is one of the pioneers of the museumization of migration as well as the communication of migration history. The association stands for a multi-perspective view of history and is committed to an inclusive remembrance culture.
Funded by the federal government, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Municipality of Cologne, the migration museum Museum Selma will be built in Cologne in the coming years on behalf of DOMiD. There, it will be shown how migration has inscribed itself in German history and shapes our society today. As a cultural and meeting place, the museum also provides a discourse space for central questions about identity, living together and participation. The German Bundestag and the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia have each earmarked €22.13 million in their budgets for the investment costs. The project was included in the German government's National Action Plan on Integration to "honor Germany's cultural wealth, which is also owed to immigrants." The house is being built in the Cologne district of Kalk on the site of the former KHD works ("Hallen Kalk", to be precise: Hall 70) in a disused industrial hall. The patron of the museum building project is former Bundestag President Prof. Dr. Rita Süßmuth.
At present 17 employees (salaried and freelance) work in the Cologne DOMiD office. The association is politically independent and ideologically neutral. DOMiD is institutionally supported by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the City of Cologne.
10 April 2025
DOMiD awards the contract for the general planning of the Museum Selma to ATELIER BRÜCKNER. The winning design for the architecture and exhibition design was selected in a European tendering process.
07 February 2025
The film “The Moelln Letters” documents the story of the victims of the racist arson attacks in Mölln in 1992; the world premiere is on February 14, 2025 at the Berlinale. The letters of solidarity to the bereaved remained undiscovered for decades.
22 October 2024
DOMiD's nationwide migration museum is given a name.
12 August 2024
What the largest of the "Hallen Kalk" will look like in the future will become clear in the coming months. DOMiD has launched a Europe-wide tender process for architecture, structural engineering and scenography for the migration museum.
22 March 2024
At its meeting yesterday, Cologne City Council approved the granting of the heritable building right for "Hall 70" of Hallen Kalk to DOMiD gGmbH for use as a nationwide migration museum. The opening is planned for 2029.
08 September 2023
For the realization of the nationwide museum "House of the Immigration Society", the sponsor DOMiD calls on the municipality to create reliable framework conditions on the premises of Hallen Kalk.
04 April 2023
- Exhibition "Who We Are. Reflections on an Immigration country" opens on May 25, 2023. - Artistic positions meet contemporary historical objects
15 November 2022
30 years after the racist arson attacks in Mölln, we have received and inventoried the so-called Mölln letters from the affected families and digitized them, making them accessible to research.
11 May 2022
• Joint advocacy for democracy, plurality and diversity • Expansion and digitisation of the collection planned • Financing of the museum through the public sector and free enterprise
26 October 2021
The migration museums DOMiD and Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven have taken the 60th anniversary of the German-Turkish recruitment agreement as an occasion to invite to this intergenerational discussion.
08 July 2021
The project "Meinwanderungsland" of the Documentation Center and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD) receives the first-ever "Kulturgestalten" prize of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft.
21 June 2021
The German Federal Cultural Foundation will fund the project "DOMiDLabs - Laboratories for Participatory Museum Design" over the next three years.
14 June 2021
The exhibition "Vor Ort - Fotogeschichten zur Migration" brings together professional photographs from the collection of Museum Ludwig and many private photographs from DOMiD's holdings.
20 January 2021
Theodor Wonja Michael was one of the last Black German survivors of the Weimar Republic and National Socialism. He passed away in 2019. Part of his estate is now entering the DOMiD collection.
15 November 2019
The budget committee of the German Bundestag approved funds for a »House of the Immigration Society« at yesterday's settlement meeting. The central migration museum will be built in Cologne. The Federal State NRW has also promised support.
03 July 2019
DOMiD (Documentation Center and Museum of Migration in Germany e.V.) was for the first time presented as a potential user of a hall owned by the city. The future migration museum is to be built in the hall.
18 April 2019
With the project "Refugee Stories Collection", DOMiD documented the experiences of 71 people in 2017 and 2018, whose flight led them to NRW since 2015.
08 January 2019
The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, visited the Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany on Sunday, together with the NRW Secretary of State for Integration Serap Güler.
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