Millions of people worldwide can claim Italian ancestry. A recently opened and highly interactive Genoa museum pays tribute to the Italian emigration experience.
Courtesy of MEI, Museo Nazionale dell'Emigrazione Italiana
One of the first thematic sections, on the museum’s ground floor, underscores how migration has always been a fundamental human activity, and traces the Italian peninsula’s earliest population movements, the subsequent nomadic routes of early sailors and herders, and later the peregrinations of merchants, artisans and artists to points beyond.
One intriguing section called The Maze lets visitors experience through an interactive installation what migrants faced in a new country as they navigated immigration interviews and searched for work and housing. ... [+]Courtesy of MEI, Museo Nazionale dell'Emigrazione Italiana
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