How do museums represent, present and interpret migrant stories? Museumhour from 25 January 2016.
I was inspired to host this topic following my visit to museums in New Zealand in Auckland (National Maritime Museum of New Zealand) and Wellington (Wellington Museum and Te Papa National Museum). All these museums featured the stories of migrants heavily. In fact the whole human history of the islands is one of migration from the first Maori voyages to the latest migrations from other parts of the Pacific and the Far East. It was good to see them presented so honestly.
I found myself enchanted and enthralled by the stories because you can’t get more human a story than that of deciding to move away from home.
We captured our great debate on #migration and #museums on museumhour’s Storify: