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The Centre for the Study of Migration at Queen Mary University of London and Vauxhall One are sponsoring a number of roundtables and events associated with the exhibition. A room that you can start to call a home. A room that you can start to call a home. Room to Breathe at The Migration Museum; Open the door, put down your suitcase, take off your coat, let the outside world fade away. The art studio as a ‘room to breathe’ Previous attachment; Next attachment; Back to gallery Dima5. It’s a support for truth and fairness in journalism.

Open the door, put down your suitcase, take off your coat, let the outside world fade away. The British government was rocked earlier this year by the ‘Windrush’ scandal, as it emerged that it had been wrongly treating (largely black) immigrants from the Caribbean Commonwealth, long residents in the UK.Aside from the intimidating tower at the entrance, and individual chronicles of racist experiences, the exhibition’s focus is less on these developments as it is on humanising the movement of people and their way of life to the streets, the sights, smells and sounds of Britain. This is where it begins. Venue: Migration Museum, Lewisham Shopping Centre, London SE13 7HB. Journey through a series of rooms in which hundreds of personal stories are brought to life in creative and unexpected ways. Room to Breathe at The Migration Museum; Open the door, put down your suitcase, take off your coat, let the outside world fade away. It also seeks to provide a space for those with positive recollections: there is the “colour of kindness” room where visitors are encouraged to hang up little handmade cardboard boxes with the name of someone who helped them — even in the tiniest way — when they first went somewhere new, encouraging visitors to recollect how overwhelming being in a new environment can be.Will it help change the situation on the ground? Rummage through drawers, take a seat at the kitchen table, settle into a barber’s chair, go back to school. Make these rooms your own. Details: migrationmuseum.org Journey through a series of rooms in which hundreds of personal stories are brought to life in creative and unexpected ways.Explore rooms to sleep, eat, learn and meet. That is the idea of “The instinct at an exhibition is not to touch anything, but we want to turn that on its head and encourage people to pick up books, find hidden objects and stories,” says Matthew Plowright, a former journalist who joined the museum project after being struck by the lack of any space in the UK that focussed on the movement of people in and out of the country.While many museums in Britain touch on immigration — so key to its past and future — until now there was not an institution dedicated to this theme in the way spaces such as New York’s Tenement Museum are, he says. “This plays into the ways in which immigration is talked about, in terms of policy and the narrow focus, largely in terms of numbers,” he says. Rummage through drawers, take a seat at the kitchen table, settle into a barber’s chair, go back to school. Journey through a series of rooms in which hundreds of personal stories are brought to life in creative and unexpected ways through film, animation, audio, photographs and personal objects.

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A room that you can start to call a home. The image evoked — a barrage of bureaucracy and mind-bogglingly complex entry requirements — is one that anyone who has moved to a new country could probably relate to.Walk through an adjacent door, however, and you enter a cosy room, with a small bed, and packed with objects and drawers to sift through.