Communicate
Migration touches us in everyday life and politics, in families, among neighbors, friends, colleagues, in our children, and within ourselves. Understanding it, empathizing with it, and shaping it humanely is one of the important tasks we face as a global society, as citizens of an immigration country, and often quite personally. In this engagement, we want to accompany adults, children, students, seniors, and experts with our educational program and provide you with the opportunity to ask questions, discover new things, find answers, deepen thoughts – and of course, to research yourself and exchange ideas with researchers.
Special Exhibitions
Telling the history and present of migration is and remains a mammoth project. Discover the latest findings, noteworthy debates, remarkable details, and surprising aspects in our special exhibitions – and gain a deeper insight into how migration moves the world through the paths of our current research.
At regular intervals, we present new, exciting knowledge from research, tellable stories, extraordinary biographies, remarkable events, and shared destinies in our special exhibition rooms and in our new garage museum.
Events
Join us to discover, learn, and discuss the history and present of migration. Together with researchers, contemporary witnesses, active individuals from politics and society, as well as thinkers from Europe’s think tanks – and of course, together with each other.
Our rich, inclusive, and family-friendly offerings of tours, lectures, and special events provide moving, entertaining, and educational hours for all ages and for the widest variety of interests and needs.
School Classes
The German Emigration Center sees itself as an extracurricular learning space with the goal of offering an appealing, motivating, enriching, and relevant program for students and teachers alike – suitable for much more than just one subject and appropriate for different grade levels.
In the German Emigration Center, societal debates and complex historical contexts are told in an empathetic and interesting way. This museum captivates ‘Digital Natives’ through its multimedia offerings and a theme that touches on their own reality every day. Motivated by a realistic exhibition, age-appropriate tours, rallies, and workshops, children and teenagers intuitively better understand migration and actively engage with it independently. Whether it’s history, politics, ethics, religion, geography, or language classes – this museum visit certainly encourages discussion and reflection.
Publications
A particular topic has excited you and you want to learn more? You want to share knowledge, give it as a gift, and preserve it for yourself?
The publications of the ‘edition DAH’ encompass the broad field of the work of the German Emigration Center: from results of special exhibitions to moving biographies and enriching research contributions to migration history – and of course the museum catalog.
Our books are available in the shop or through our ordering service (Tel.: 0471 / 90 22 0 – 0, E-Mail: info@dah-bremerhaven.de).
Library
A special treasure of the German Emigration Center houses the Historical Maritime Authority opposite the main building of the museum. In the ‘Library of German Immigration and Emigration History,’ there is an impressive collection of specialized literature and sources on migration history that enriches the work of many researchers beyond the center. From compilations and monographs on historical emigration guides to current specialist literature, as well as sources of political and social discourse in Germany over the past decades, the library offers a selection of texts, the oldest of which can be dated back to 1792, providing a comprehensive perspective on a variety of questions related to migration.
The collection, which now boasts a considerable size of over 6,000 volumes covering various aspects of migration history, originally stems from the library of the America House, was transferred to the museum by the Friends of the German Emigration Center e.V., and has been supplemented by invaluable donations from renowned migration researchers and generous supporters like Sparkasse Bremerhaven.
Would you like to research in the library for your research project? Then we ask you to register early at Tel.: +49 / (0) 471 / 90 22 0 – 0 or info@dah-bremerhaven.de
Conferences
Expertise requires exchange to gain perspective and develop new ways of thinking and acting. As an open research site that seeks exchange, the German Emigration Center welcomes an interdisciplinary spectrum of experts and interested parties, migration researchers, historians, and engaged individuals from society and politics for fruitful discussions at (inter-)national conferences and specialist meetings.