Sunday, December 14, 2008

La Merica! Da Genova a Ellis Island (Genoa, till 1/9/2009)

La Merica! Da Genova a Ellis Island. Il viaggio per mare ai tempi della migrazione italiana
Genoa, Galata Museo del Mare (until Jan. 9, 2009)

The exhibition shows how Italian emigrants travelled between 1892 (when Ellis Island was opened) and 1914 (beginning of World War I). It represents the first step of the planned "MEM - Museo dell'Emigrazione".

[Link: Migration Museums Network]

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