Documentation
The documentation at The Multicultural Centre is based on the idea that a "multicultural society" is something more than just "people from different cultures". Immigration affects us all, directly or indirectly. How does Sweden change, given the needs and possibilities created by social and cultural diversity?
Awareness of how people live and think is essential in order to be able
to handle questions about justice and people's need to live in dignity.
The Multicultural Centre is summoning a group of Swedish museums representatives for special meetings about culture. The task of this group is to develop new perspectives about collections and exhibitions. The questions of migration and cultural encounters have to be integrated into the work of the museums.
Remembering Migration
Migration is one of the largest processes in societies all over the world today. It has effects not only on the receiving countries, but also on the countries people leave. When we in the future commemorate this historical period, migration will be a process that many people will have to engage with strongly. Migration will then be part of family background and kinship history for a large part of the global population. But we have not yet established how best we should describe or give form to these experiences made by the generations of people who have migrated.
The project Remembering Migration is carried out in collaboration between the Multicultural Centre and the Nordiska museet in Sweden. Our aim is to develop a framework for a large-scale collection of written life history narratives related to the international migration to Sweden.
All persons – young and old, women and men – with personal experience of migration are urged to take part in the personal life history writing. The project Remembering Migration is an attempt to reach another narrative, a new contemporary history of migration.
For more information contact Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius or Mattias Frihammar
E-mail: lotta.hylten-cavallius@mkc.botkyrka.se and mattias.frihammar@mkc.botkyrka.se
Collectingnet
The Multicultural Centre is a member of Collectingnet – An international museum network for collecting issues.
To join the network, please contact collectingnet@nordiskamuseet.se
Charlotte Hyltén-Cavallius is one of three editors of the Collectingnet's Newsletter which appears four times a year.
Read the Newsletter here (pdf)
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