All Our Stories
12th September, 2024 – December 2025.
Migration Museum
Lewisham Shopping Centre (Central Square)
London
SE13 7HB
All Our Stories is a new exhibition opening on 12 September 2024 at the Migration Museum in London, shining a light on how central migration has always been to our lives in Britain through immersive installations, art, film, photography, personal stories and keepsakes.
All Our Stories brings together highlights from the Migration Museum’s work over the past decade, alongside new stories and artwork that explore the many ways in which migration has shaped who we are – as individuals, as communities, and as a nation. Visitors will embark on an immersive journey exploring the reasons why people migrate, experiences of arriving and settling, and questions of identity and belonging. Throughout the exhibition, historical moments are explored alongside contemporary responses, creating a space for individual and collective reflection, exploration and conversation.
This major new exhibition from the award-winning curatorial team at the Migration Museum features immersive installations, new commissions and interactive pieces including (see Notes for a full list of contributors):
Visitors to All Our Stories will be invited to explore the Migration Museum’s archive of migration stories and share their own. The exhibition also provides a space to learn more about the Migration Museum’s aims and future plans as it moves towards a permanent site in central London, opening in 2027/8. Migration often hits the headlines and sparks heated political and online debates, as shown earlier this summer in Britain. “In the light of recent racist violence targeting migrant communities and ethnic minorities across the UK and with the museum moving towards a permanent central London site, this exhibition couldn’t be more timely or important,” said Aditi Anand, Artistic Director at the Migration Museum and lead curator of the exhibition.
On an almost daily basis, we see how conversations about migration, race and belonging can become heated and polarising. But it doesn’t have to be like this.
Sophie Henderson, CEO of the Migration Museum
All Our Stories opens at the Migration Museum’s current venue in Lewisham, south-east London, on 12 September 2024, and runs until the end of 2025. It will be accompanied by a programme of events, including talks, lectures, workshops and day-long festivals exploring themes ranging from food to family history. It will run alongside the Migration Museum’s new community curated exhibition Inside/Outside and All In Between.
All Our Stories is the Migration Museum’s last major exhibition in Lewisham before it moves to its permanent home in the City of London. The permanent Migration Museum will be part of an ecosystem encompassing temporary venues across the UK, a digital storytelling platform, and partnerships with other museums, galleries and heritage sites to platform and amplify migration stories across the UK. The Migration Museum’s previous exhibition, Heart of the Nation: Migration and the Making of the NHS, won Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year at the Museums+Heritage Awards 2024.
All Our Stories opens on the 12th of September, 2024 until December 2025 at Migration Museum in Lewisham
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