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Belonging: Voices of London's Refugees
27 October 2006 to 25 February 2007, Museum of London
Belonging aims to be a thought provoking exhibition that challenges assumptions about refugees and explores the contributions they make to London. Find out what it means to be a refugee - to be forced to leave your country and to build a new life in exile.
Hear powerful personal stories and see objects, photographs, film and art that bring home tales of loss, adaptation and achievement. Developed in partnership with 25 community organisations, this exhibition includes inspiring real life accounts of refugees from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Most of the oral history material featured in the Belonging exhibition was collected by the Refugee Communities History Project; 'Refugee Stories' is the website of the project and contains many more life experiences.
Read the Belonging Press Release
Exhibition tours
Annette Day, Curator of Belonging, offers a guided tour of the exhibition and explains how it was created.
Refugee community tours
Led by people from refugee communities, these tours highlight material from their community and other key displays in the Belonging exhibition. The 20-minute tours will be offered in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Dari, French, Kurdish (Sorani and Kurmanji), Mandarin, Polish, Roma, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Tigrinya and Turkish.
More information on the tours (pdf)
How to get there
Museum of London
Nearest Tubes: St Paul's, Barbican and Moorgate
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Free special events
During the exhibition there will be numerous free dance, music, poetry and cultural events.
More information on free events (pdf)
