A migration museum opens as views split on policy ~ ⛾:Kaffibolla

A new museum in Rotterdam is dedicated to human migration, featuring a 30-meter spiral steel staircase nicknamed "the tornado" depicting the twists and turns of the migrant journey. The Fenix Museum of Migration, opened on May 15, is full of personal artifacts, including artwork from a Syrian refugee and a roomful of suitcases sourced from migrants to and from Europe's biggest port city — where over half the population is a first- or second-generation immigrant.

The museum is particularly provocative at a time when the Netherlands is experiencing rising anti-immigrant sentiment, with the government pledging last year to implement the "strictest asylum policy ever," Charlotte Hughes-Morgan reports. Today on CityLab: A Migration Museum Opens in a Hotbed of Anti-Immigrant Sentiment

— Rthvika Suvarna

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