FAQ

Museum Selma is being built on around 10,000 square metres in Hall 70, an old industrial hall on the former KHD plant in Cologne-Kalk, the so-called Hallen Kalk. An architectural tendering process is currently underway.

The unique national collection on the history of migration in Germany, which forms the basis of Museum Selma, comprises over 150,000 contemporary artefacts.

19 employees (salaried and freelance) currently work at the DOMiD office in Cologne.

Museum Selma: The name is a central part of the museum's identity. We were looking for a unique name that is easy to remember, works internationally and fits the concept of our migration museum. It replaces the previous working title “House of the Immigration Society”.

The name Museum Selma combines a Celtic meaning of "beautiful view" with Arabic roots meaning "harmony" and "peace".

As a female first name, Selma is common in numerous countries around the world and in a wide variety of languages - and is therefore already a statement for the diversity of the future museum.
We made a conscious decision to use a female name in order to strengthen the female perspective, especially in the often male-perceived phenomenon of migration.

Are you interested in the work of DOMiD and would like to support us on a voluntary basis?Could you imagine becoming a lender to the collection with your personal story? Would you like to make suggestions, help shape the collection and contribute ideas? Please get in touch with us.

We would be delighted if you would like to support our work. We have been working on the vision of a migration museum for a long time, but the Museum Selma is just getting started - so you can help us a lot if you tell your friends, family, colleagues, neighbours and whoever else you like about the Museum Selma.

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This page is under construction and will regularly contain new updates about the Museum Selma. So feel free to drop by again. If you have any further questions that are not answered here, please write to us at hallo@museum-selma.de.