Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven - German Emigration Museum

Embark on a journey through time and experience recreated settings and locations at the German Emigration House. During your journey through the adventure museum, migration history comes to life while you accompany real family stories.

Between 1830 and 1974, over seven million people emigrated from the port of Bremerhaven to find a new home in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina or Australia. In 2005, the Adventure Museum was founded to tell the stories of these people in an authentic place. Embark on an exciting journey and experience migration history up close.

Along with a "boarding pass", visitors receive one of 18 emigrant biographies that accompany them through the museum's exhibition. Numerous media stations give you the opportunity to learn more about their fates and backgrounds. In the detailed reconstructions of the emigration routes, you can immerse yourself into the emotional world of "your" emigrant. The journey begins at the quay in 1888 and takes you on board typical emigrant ships of the 1850s, 1880s and 1920s to the New World. Arriving in the USA, the time travellers are awaited by the immigration test on Ellis Island from 1907. Finally Grand Central Terminal, built in 1921, marks the end of the journey.

Would you like to research your own emigrated relatives? The museum's family research with two international databases also offers you the opportunity to do so! The programme is supplemented by various special exhibitions, guided tours, events and conferences. In 2007, the German Emigration Centre was awarded the "European Museum of the Year Award".