German Emigration Center
German Emigration Center
German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven
The German Emigration Center (German: Deutsches Auswandererhaus) is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. It is Europe's largest theme museum about emigration. Visitors can experience the emigration process through interactive exhibits. The museum also provides access to databases of immigration records.[1]
The museum opened on August 8, 2005.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ German Emigration Center Bremerhaven Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in German) Joachim Baur, Expokritik: Ein Migrationsmuseum der anderen Art. Das Deutsche Auswanderer-Haus in Bremerhaven Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine. In: Werkstatt Geschichte 15, 2006, Nr. 42, S. 97-103
External links
[edit]- German Emigration Center Website, in German and English
Further reading
[edit]- Bade, Klaus J. "From emigration to immigration: The German experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Central European History 28.4 (1995): 507–535.
- Quirin, Katrin (2009). Das Buch zum Deutschen Auswandererhaus = The German Emigration Center Book (in German and English) (2nd ubarb. und erw. ed.). Bremerhaven [Germany]: DAH. ISBN 978-3-00-028384-0.
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- Museums in Bremen (state)
- Ethnographic museums in Germany
- Buildings and structures in Bremerhaven
- History museums in Germany
- German-American history
- German emigrants to the United States
- German emigrants
- Museums established in 2005
- 2005 establishments in Germany
- Museums of human migration
- German building and structure stubs