German Emigration Center (Deutsches Auswandererhaus)

>Impressively staged reconstructions invite you to travel through time

1900, a sewing shop in New York. A young immigrant from Eastern Europe works on one of the machines, often for more than ten hours a day. Her little son is at the factory with her. 1973, a Cologne automobile factory. A Turkish worker is worried about his family's livelihood because of the poor salary. He has to change something... How do they get to these places? What do they hope for, what do they dream about? What's next for her?

Their stories are two of many with which guests at the German Emigration Center Bremerhaven immerse themselves deeply in the eras of German and European immigration and emigration. At Neuen Hafen, one of the most important historical emigration ports in Europe, visitors to the award-winning adventure museum go on an interactive journey through time through impressive, faithfully reconstructed locations from over 300 years ago. On the trail of moving, real biographies, they follow emigrants from Bremerhaven's quay to daily life in the New World and discover the history of the Federal Republic through the eyes of immigrants (source: bremerhaven.de de/tourism/museums-experience-worlds/deutsches-auswandererhaus-bremerhaven.16123.html)

In the footsteps of the emigrants, the museum guests follow their moving life stories in the originally reconstructed rooms of the award-winning adventure museum to a new home - from saying goodbye at the quay, to crossing the Atlantic on a typical emigrant ship, to entering the halls of the Grand Central Terminal in New York . At the many interactive media stations, visitors hear, see and learn more about the diverse fate of emigrants and the history of migration.

Highly recommended, you might find a family member here.