Red Star Line Museum
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| place | Belgium, Antwerp, Montevideostraat 3 |
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Migration Museum
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| opening | 2013 |
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www.redstarline.be/de
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The Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp opened in 2013 in the former warehouse of the Belgian Red Star Line shipping company. It mainly presents European migration to America.
The Red Star Line operated the transatlantic routes to the United States and Canada from various European ports and transported over 100,000 people per year at peak times. It was dissolved in 1939. Numerous passengers had to have themselves and their luggage disinfected in the warehouses in Montevideostraat, had been medically examined and it was there that it was decided who was allowed to travel to the United States and Canada. In its permanent exhibition, the museum shows the emigration of passengers to North America in connection with the Red Star Line, from a travel agency in Warsaw to train compartments and ship cabins to their arrival on Ellis Island and the future in the United States. The local aspect of the city of Antwerp and its port is taken up as well as the accompanying Belgian and European history and the motives for emigration (including anti-Semitism , poverty , subsequent travel to friends and family reunification). Both historical and current migration are discussed.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Red Star Line Museum . EUROM, accessed November 8, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '59.6 " N , 4 ° 24' 12.8" E