Museo nazionale dell'Emigrazione italiana

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The Museo nazionale dell'Emigrazione italiana (abbreviation: MEI, German: National Italian Migration Museum) is a migration museum planned in Genoa , which is expected to open in 2020/21.

history

In 2009, the national Italian migration museum initiated by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was provisionally opened in the National Monument for Victor Emmanuel II in Rome . Around 50 million people in the world are at least one eighth of Italian ancestors. The museum showed how the Italian emigrants from Sicily, Lombardy, Veneto or Abruzzo left their mark on the diaspora and sometimes only learned to appreciate their nationality when they were abroad. The museum comprised five areas:

  • History overview with documentaries, eyewitness reports, pictures and newspaper news
  • Regional section with a focus on regional exhibitions on social, anthropological, political and economic aspects
  • Emigration gallery
  • Web portal
  • Space for special exhibitions by the regions
The monument to Vittorio Emanuelle II., 2018

At the end of March 2016, the museum was closed by the then Italian minister of culture, Dario Franceschini , in order to merge it with the special exhibition Memoria e Migrazioni (abbreviation: MEM, German: Memory and Emigration), which has been housed in the Sea Museum Galata in Genoa since 2011, into a single national Italian migration museum .

The new museum project was presented in Genoa in June 2018. The opening of the MEI in the Commenda di Pré in Genoa is planned for 2020/21. It should be based on the German Emigration Center in Bremerhaven and the EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum in Dublin .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Opening of the National Museum of Italian Emigration . Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, October 23, 2009, accessed November 17, 2019.
  2. ^ The National Italian Museum of Emigration is born, a century of national history . Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 29, 2009, accessed November 17, 2019.
  3. ^ Al Galata, Museo del Mare arriva il Mem: memoria e migrazione. In: mentelocale.it. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (Italian).
  4. ↑ Emigrazione, Franceschini: Si va verso fondazione per la italiana Ellis Iceland. A febbraio a Genova firm dell'accordo. In: beniculturali.it. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (Italian).
  5. ^ Alla Commenda di Prè il Museo nazionale dell'Emigrazione. In: comune.genova.it. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (Italian).
  6. ↑ Museoteatro della Commenda. In: museidigenova.it. Retrieved November 20, 2019 (Italian).

Coordinates: 44 ° 24 ′ 56 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 20 ″  E