Exhibition opening and talk
“New Muslim Homes” with entrepreneur Maria Mawla and postdoc Maria Lyngsøe
Join us for the opening of the exhibition ’New Muslim Homes’, which explores how Muslim traditions meet Scandinavian aesthetics and give shape to new identities. In connection with the opening of the exhibition, we invite you to a talk with Maria Mawla, entrepreneur and owner of the shop Green Living in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, and Maria Lyngsøe, postdoc on the research project ’Pious Practices Among Danish Muslims’ from the University of Copenhagen. The conversation will be moderated by museum curator Emma Barnhøj Jeppesen. Free participation. Registration: museerne@furesoe.dk.
Event
Author evening: Meet Waleed Safi and hear the stories behind the book “All Roads Lead to Mecca”
With a mixture of historical knowledge, personal memories and travel impressions, as well as stories from the people he meets on his way to Mecca, Waleed Safi has written a truly successful and exciting book about the Middle East. On Tuesday 22 September at 19.00, the Migration Museum of Denmark and Furesø Libraries invite you to meet the author behind the book.
Exhibition coming soon
Experience the exhibition ‘The Searching Human’
From 24 August to 31 October, you can experience the Migration Museum’s new exhibition The Searching Human in the foyer of Farum Kulturhus. You are invited to explore stories about doubt and faith, values and outlooks on life, meaning and existence. Here you meet people who, in different ways, have searched for new spiritual, religious or existential paths – and found answers that were not always the expected ones. Perhaps you will recognise something of yourself in the stories. Perhaps you will encounter new perspectives that are unfamiliar to you. Because even if our answers are different, we often share the same questions.
Funding
The Augustinus Foundation supports new project ‘In the Past We Made History’
Together with photographic artists Tina Enghoff and Kent Klich and RSS Press, the Migration Museum of Denmark has received a grant of DKK 200,000 from the Augustinus Foundation to incorporate the digital archive ‘In the Past We Made History’ into the museum’s collection and to develop an artistic and documentary book of the same name. The archive is the result of extensive documentation of the historic influx of refugees between 2015 and 2018. Enghoff and Klich have revisited 89 former asylum centres and emergency accommodation facilities, photographing buildings, rooms and surfaces – physical traces that will gradually disappear over time. A significant part of the archive was created in collaboration with people who have experienced displacement and who actively participated in selecting the photographs and deciding what should be preserved. Photo: Enghoff & Klich.
Funding
IA-Sprog awards DKK 350,000 for new project on repatriation
In collaboration with two language teachers, the Migration Museum of Denmark has received a grant from IA-Sprog for a new project exploring experiences of repatriation. The aim of the project is to examine how returning migrants experience their linguistic and cultural identity in their country of origin. Photo: Uwe Bødevadt.
Book publication
From Instamatic to Instagram
The Migration Museum of Denmark has contributed to the new book ‘From Instamatic to Instagram – Stories from the Family Album’ (2025), in which cultural researcher Mette Sandbye analyses the private photo album as a practice that shapes reality. Sandbye draws parallels between the photographs taken by guest workers and other contemporary photo albums, such as Danish tourists’ photographs from package holidays in Mallorca. The point is that photography is not merely passive documentation, but an active way of constructing a narrative about one’s life.
Appointment
New board of Furesø Museums
At a recent meeting, the new board of Furesø Museums formally constituted itself. With its new composition, the museum is firmly rooted in both continuity and innovation. The board combines strong local ties with new perspectives from the business community, municipal politics and the museum sector – providing a solid foundation for the continued development of the museum’s three departments: the Migration Museum of Denmark and the two local history museums, Mosegaarden and Cornelen.
Publication
New report provides insight into experiences of having multiple homes among young people with multicultural backgrounds
Based on the project ‘MOSAIC – Stories of Having Multiple Homes’ (2025), the museum has brought together key experiences and perspectives that offer a unique insight into how the meaning of home is negotiated and changes over time among young people with multicultural backgrounds.
Book sales
Buy the book ‘The Guest Workers – Stories from the 1970s’
The book brings together a series of personal stories told by people who themselves played a central role in the history of guest workers. They describe their journey to Denmark in the 1970s, their first experiences in the workplace, their encounter with Danish society, their leisure time, home life and cultural encounters. The memories presented in the book are complemented by images from private photo albums and photographs by Jerry Bergman and Uwe Bødewadt.
Communication
Immigration on Film: The Danish Film Institute and the Migration Museum of Denmark highlight an overlooked chapter of Danish history
In a series of newly digitised documentary films from 1969 to 1996, immigrants, refugees and their descendants share their stories of coming to Denmark. The story is presented on the ‘Denmark on Film’ platform through a timeline featuring interviews and clips of, among others, Polish women working in the fields, refugees during the Second World War, Roma people, and guest workers who arrived in the 1960s, together with their families and descendants. The films are available to watch online free of charge.
News
Meet Our Museum Ambassadors
We are delighted to introduce our twelve museum ambassadors, whom you can meet here on the website or occasionally in our exhibitions. Follow our social media channels, where we regularly introduce the museum ambassadors and share their stories from Danish migration history.
Knowledge
Visit ‘Migration History’ – our knowledge portal
Our society, cultural heritage and communities have been shaped by the various waves of immigration and emigration that have taken place throughout history. Migration is an age-old phenomenon, but it remains highly relevant today. On our knowledge portal, ‘Migration History’, you can learn more about some of the people who have immigrated to Denmark over the past 500 years and helped shape our society, history and cultural heritage.
The Migration Museum of Denmark
Welcome to Denmark
Hope, faith, peace, security, money and love – there are many reasons to travel.
All newcomers have faced the challenge of creating a new life in an unfamiliar country,
with an unknown language and new neighbours. Migration has always existed and is part of our everyday lives.
The history of immigration to Denmark is a mosaic of personal destinies and historical events.
It consists of political doctrines combined with pragmatic solutions and individual choices. Every story is unique,
but together, migrants’ stories across time make a distinctive contribution to our shared history:
the story of the newcomers’ encounter with Denmark and Denmark’s encounter with the world.
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