DOMiD
DOMiD (abbreviation for Documentation Center and Museum about Migration in Germany ) is a registered association in Cologne that collects, preserves, researches and exhibits materials on the history of migration . The history of immigration in Germany is to be presented to a wide audience. In addition to its museum and archival work, DOMiD organizes events, conferences and lectures. The aim is to convey migration as a normal case. DOMiD has been located in the district town hall in Cologne-Ehrenfeld since 2010 .
aims
DOMiD is therefore working together with other private and state actors to set up a central migration museum in Germany and to establish migration as a cross-cutting issue in museums and archives. Former Bundestag President Rita Süssmuth is the patron of the project . A scientific advisory board supports the association in central scientific questions. The advisory board consists of internationally recognized scientists.
Today DOMiD's archive includes a nationwide unique collection of social, everyday and cultural historical evidence on the history of immigration to Germany. The focus of the collection is the time after the first recruitment agreement (1955). The association's collection was expanded through the “Migration Project”. There were also materials on migration from Turkey , Italy , Greece , Spain , Portugal , Morocco , Tunisia , Ex-Yugoslavia , South Korea , Vietnam , Mozambique and Angola . Today all immigration movements to Germany are the focus of attention. In 2016, the inventory comprised over 100,000 books, gray literature , newspapers, magazines, original documents, photographs, films, audio documents, leaflets, posters and three-dimensional objects.
Club history
The association was founded in 1990 under the name DOMiT Documentation Center and Museum on Migration from Turkey eV in the Ruhr area . The founding fathers were four migrants . The overall social and political atmosphere formed the occasion. The history of immigrants did not receive any special attention either in historical science or in museums or archives.
In 2007 DOMiT merged with the Migrationsmuseum in Deutschland e. V. , who also campaigned for the establishment of a central migration museum. The merger brought together migrants of different origins and Germans without a migration background. Against this background and because of the expansion of the collection and the level of awareness of DOMiT, the members decided to change their name: DOMiT with “T” became DOMiD with “D” - documentation center and museum about migration in Germany.
DOMiD became known to a wider public through the nationwide first major exhibition on the subject of Migration: Foreign Home. A History of Immigration from Turkey . It was shown in 1998 in the Ruhrland Museum in Essen . Further exhibitions and internet projects on migration to Germany followed. From 2002 to 2006 the Documentation Center carried out the migration project with several cooperation partners . The Federal Culture Foundation initiated and funded the project. It culminated in a large socio-historical and artistic exhibition, which was shown at four locations in Cologne in 2005/2006. The last major exhibition project Divided Homeland. 50 Years of Migration from Turkey was shown in parallel in 2011 in the German Historical Museum in Berlin, in the historic Cologne City Hall and in the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf. Currently (as of 2013) DOMiD is working on numerous projects. The anniversaries of the recruitment agreements with Morocco and South Korea as well as the Ford strike in Cologne were accompanied by cooperation and publications. At the same time, DOMiD is developing the DOMiD macht Schule program as part of its educational work . The aim is to sensitize students and teachers to the issue of migration and to impart intercultural skills to them. Since May, DOMiD has been developing a documentation profile to help archives represent migration in all its facets.
In 2015, DOMiD was awarded the “Diversity Wins!” Prize in Cologne's historic town hall. This is awarded to Cologne companies and organizations that recognize, promote and use the diversity of their employees. The jury recognized, among other things, that DOMiD's work is characterized by a multi-perspective approach, because migration history can only be captured by referring to diverse perspectives. This is reflected in DOMiD's personnel concept, which provides for a balanced relationship between employees with and without migration experience.
In 2017 DOMiD received the estate of the journalist and co-founder of the organization Cap Anamur / German emergency doctors Rupert Neudeck .
In 2017, DOMiD also carried out the Refugee Stories Collection project .
In 2018/2019 the BAMF-funded project #Meinwanderungsland was added.
Planned "House of the Immigration Society"
The association is planning a central German migration museum under the name "House of the Immigration Society". In Germany, every second child is born with a migration background, but the association believes that the realization that migration is the norm is not yet anchored in German society. The migration museum is intended to help convey cultural diversity and to break down prejudices. In the house, with a focus on the period from 1945 to the present day, the changes caused by migration will be presented. In November 2019 it was announced that the federal and state governments each want to contribute 22 million euros and that the city of Cologne will provide the former Hall 70 of Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz in the Kalk district.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See IMIS articles, issue 51/2017, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS): The Scenography of Migration: History. Practice. Future, Osnabrück 2017
- ^ Aid organizations - Cologne: Rupert Neudeck's estate goes to the DOMiD in Cologne. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 13, 2017, accessed March 13, 2020.
- ↑ Start. Retrieved September 29, 2019 (German).
- ^ House of the Immigration Society - The Central Migration Museum . Homepage of the association, accessed December 22, 2019.
- ↑ Stefan Dege: Cologne gets a "house of the immigration society" . Deutsche Welle, November 27, 2019, accessed December 22, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 8.4 " N , 6 ° 54 ′ 48.6" E