Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven, Migration museum in Bremerhaven harbor, Germany.
The Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven is a museum dedicated to emigration history with recreated scenes from different periods, including ship cabins and processing stations from the 19th century. The displays are complemented by two international databases where visitors can research family records and genealogical information.
The museum was established to document the massive wave of emigration that saw over seven million people depart from Bremerhaven's port between 1830 and 1974 to start lives in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. An expansion completed in 2012 added exhibits covering three centuries of German immigration history, balancing emigration and immigration perspectives.
Visitors receive a boarding pass featuring one of eighteen real emigrant life stories and follow their personal journey through interactive displays. This approach helps people connect with the actual experiences and choices of those who left their homeland.
The collection spans multiple floors organized along a central route that allows visitors to navigate independently at their own pace. The museum provides accessible entry points and multilingual information to accommodate guests from different backgrounds.
The facility houses one of the world's largest collections of emigration records containing millions of names available for genealogical research. Many visitors discover unexpected information about their own families and the paths their ancestors took when leaving Germany.
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