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Visualization: Atelier Brückner

Museum Selma

This is what the Museum Selma will look like. The neighbouring hall will be stripped back to its steel skeleton: from 2029, visitors will be able to enter our museum via this hall – even in the evening. The architectural design has been honoured with the prestigious German Design Award.

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Visualization: Atelier Brückner

Museum Selma

Bright, airy, sustainable: This is what the Museum Selma by DOMiD will look like, when it opens in 2029.

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  • Photo: Stella v. Saldern on behalf of the German Bundestag, CC-BY-SA-4.0

    News, Migration museum

    On the death of Rita Süssmuth: We bid farewell to our museum's patron

    The former President of the Bundestag and CDU Federal Minister paved the way for social change in many respects, including an understanding of Germany as a country of immigration. She has now passed away at the age of 88.

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  • Sebastião Mufume / DOMiD E0687,0015

    Event, News, Collection

    Black History Month Guided Tour: A journey through Black history in our collection

    26 February 2026

    DOMiD is also a place of Black history. Using selected objects, the history of Black people in Germany becomes tangible.

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  • View of the exhibition ‘Makkaroni Settanta – Esperimento collettivo’. Photo: Maria Segat

    News, Exhibition, Event

    „Makkaroni Settanta – Esperimento collettivo“: Exhibition enters its final weekend

    07 December 2025 – 11 January 2026

    Seventy years ago, Italy and the Federal Republic of Germany signed the recruitment agreement that heralded the era of ‘guest workers’. Our cooperation partner Makkaroni Akademie is hosting an exhibition on this topic in Cologne until 11 January.

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Photo: Dietrich Hackenberg/DOMiD-Archive, Cologne

Photo: Dietrich Hackenberg/DOMiD-Archive, Cologne

DOMiD collects and conserves material which documents migration history. Furthermore, we believe it is our duty to research and present the history of migration in Germany to a wide audience. In addition to our museological and archival work, we organize events, conferences and talks. Our goal is to convey that migration is a norm in human history. We believe this perspective can provide a basis for developing a shared, transcultural identity.

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If you are in possesion of material that you think may be relevant to migration history, we would love to hear from you! Become a donor.

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Photo: Sabine Richmann
The migrant knowledge has not been taken into account for decades, although it has always been and remains an expertise on racism. Now this knowledge has a museum.
İbrahim Arslan, activist and survivor of the racist arson attack of Mölln 1992

Migration history in pictures

Migration has left a lasting mark on our society. In the motif series "Migration History in Pictures" we have selected objects from the DOMiD collection that stand for certain phenomena of migration history since 1945. In short, richly illustrated online stories, we tell how migrants have influenced the history of Germany.

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