Red Star Line Museum, Antwerp

There's a museum which, outside the centre, deserves 100% a good walk (or take the car, inexpensive parking right next door). A real return in time of European emigrants from the beginning of the last century. Very interesting exhibition.

He knows people on average transatlantic migration end 19-early 20 centuries? I suspect that for most basic source of information on this topic-the Titanic movie with Dicaprio. But the transatlantic migration is an important episode of social history as Europe and America. For a variety of reasons over the decades, millions of people left the old world. Someone escaped from poverty, someone from discrimination, someone dreamed of adventures ... And for some of them it is a journey to a new life began here in Belgium, on the Rhine promenade in Antwerp, where the year 1871 was a place of steamers Belgian-American shipping company Red Star Line. A visit to this Museum will allow you to learn a lot of new and interesting about this historical phenomenon. For example, you'll see that the first episode of the film "Titanic" (remember, the hero of Dicaprio wins a ticket to the "Titanic" of cards in literally five minutes before departure?) historically, unreal-actually migrants before departure from Europe were strict medical examination and were in quarantine, which could take several weeks. The Museum details the entire process of migration, from buying a ticket in the migration agency, often located hundreds of kilometers from the port, before arriving in America and at the new location. The museum itself is located in the premises where the medical examination was conducted of migrants and disinfecting their clothing. Just think how many people passed through these rooms! For them it was farewell to Europe. Despite the fact that the content of the Museum is to be commended, the Museum, in my opinion, there is a lack of exhibits. For example, it would be very interesting to see the reconstruction of the Interior cabins of different classes.