Red Star Line Museum

Set in the original premises of the historic shipping company on Antwerp’s Eilandje, the Red Star Line Museum tells a universal story of hope, dreams and the quest for happiness through the personal stories of 20th-century emigrants. Building on the historical narrative of European emigration via Antwerp to America, we encourage reflection and dialogue with visitors, witnesses and partners on migration in the past, present and future. The Red Star Line Museum cherishes and preserves history, drawing on the personal stories of migrants. We link their life stories to current social issues through recognisable themes. The Red Star Line Museum is a place of exchange: diverse and unifying, authentic and contemporary, rooted in the local community yet with an international reach.

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Montevideostraat 3
2000 Antwerpen

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In this place, between 1873 and 1935 more than two million people with a steamship left for a better life. Walk in the footsteps of the passengers through the original buildings of the shipping company Red Star Line and discover numerous moving and compelling stories

If walls could talk.. A century ago, two million people set off from the buildings of the Red Star Line, full of hopes and dreams, for America. Their stories are poignant, timeless and universal. At the museum, you will learn about their journey and discover the world of the emigrants, then and now.