IN2PAST team in Dublin
Research mission to EPIC – The Irish Emigration Museum

Towards a white paper on migration

IN2PAST researchers José Mapril (CRIA – NOVA FCSH), Victor Pereira (IHC – NOVA FCSH) and Sónia Ferreira (CRIA – NOVA FCSH) were in Dublin, Ireland, at the end of January, for a research and survey mission at EPIC – The Irish Emigration Museum. The visit was part of our associate laboratory's initiative to get to know and study museums dedicated to migration, with a view to producing a white paper on the subject.

The team consolidated their research into EPIC, the museum's exhibition approaches, its history, and the process from basic ideas to implementation, with on-site visits to the permanent and temporary exhibitions, research into the museum's digital archives and an interview with Nathan Mannion, EPIC's Head of Exhibitions and Programmes.

Opened in 2016, EPIC was created to recognise ‘the role migration plays in informing how we define who we are and the importance of the Irish diaspora in the cultural, political and economic development of both Ireland and the communities they settled in’.

Anthropologists Sónia Ferreira and José Mapril, and historian Victor Pereira are PhD researchers at IN2PAST who specialize in migration.