German_Emigration_Center

German Emigration Center

German Emigration Center

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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]

German Emigration Center
German Emigration Center
German Emigration Center
German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven

The museum opened on August 8, 2005.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    German Emigration Center Bremerhaven Archived 2012-05-12 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    (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

Further reading

  • 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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