The original examination halls
Where the emigrants waited before the ocean.
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Strongly โ the story of migration, departure and hope is universal, and anyone who has known exile finds themselves in these people's tales. The museum is human, not technical, and designed to be understood without historical background. Among Antwerp's most moving museums, and quiet. Combine it with the neighbouring MAS and lunch on the Eilandje quay.
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The Red Star Line Museum tells the story of the great emigration to America from Antwerp: between 1873 and 1934 the Red Star Line shipping company carried about two million emigrants from Eastern and Central Europe across the ocean to New York โ among them Einstein, the composer Irving Berlin as a child, and the ancestors of millions of Americans. The museum is in the original buildings where emigrants were medically examined and disinfected before boarding. The visit follows the emigrant's journey step by step: from the village and the hard decision, to the train to Antwerp, to the examination and waiting in these very halls, to the ocean, to Ellis Island โ with testimonies, suitcases, photographs and moving individual stories, and a tower overlooking the harbour they left from. A museum of hope, fear and departure that touches anyone who has known migration. In the Eilandje quarter near the MAS โ combine them in a half-day on the harbour. Closed Mondays.
Where the emigrants waited before the ocean.
Suitcases, photographs and testimonies that touch the heart.
A view over the port they sailed from.
Montevideostraat 3, 2000 Antwerp