The presentation of ‘Roots Seekers’ showed us the story of people in search of their own distant and recent past. For more recent migration stories, the museum collaborated with students from the Sint-Agnes Institute in Borgerhout.
The museum launched our fieldworkers project in 2017. Fieldworkers are people with a refugee and migration background who conduct interviews with migrants themselves.
Even before the museum opened, we toured the city with our Story Bus (with the name ‘Here I am!’) in search of contemporary migration stories. We worked with various sociocultural associations to collect hundreds of stories.
In 2014, the ‘Home Sweet Home’ exhibition on travelling and coming home was staged in the museum Shed in collaboration with the artist Bülent Öztürk and the photographer Mashid Mohadjerin. The museum also worked with young people of Turkish and Moroccan origin.
With this project, the museum (in collaboration with Joba refugee network) gave unaccompanied minor refugees an opportunity to introduce themselves at the museum and to preserve their stories for the future.
The museum has joined forces with teachers and with the Atlas organization to develop educational materials that help newcomers experience the museum in a personalized way.
Are you a visitor, staff or just casually passing by? Everybody’s welcome. For the time being we are unable to serve drinks, but you can take a seat, relax or eat your own lunch.
Cristina describes herself as a singer-songwriter and musician with Angolan roots. She grew up with influences from gospel, Congolese and Angolan music, R&B and funk.
Omid was born in Iran. There he received a classical trumpet training. Via the non-profit organization Zing Zang Zong, he found his way to the Antwerp Conservatory. His main instrument is guitar and he is open to all kinds of musical influences.
