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Ellis Island
The Stories Behind an Arrival
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Ellis Island’s immigration museum connects a former processing station with the lives of people who passed through it. The Registry Room, also called the Great Hall, was a place of medical and legal inspection. Today, the island offers a setting for thinking about migration through individual experiences as well as national history.
Before you go
Check the NPS notices about construction and temporarily closed exhibits. The official page also flags a changed New York screening and ferry location in The Battery; verify the current departure instructions.
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Use architectural scale and harbor context.
Do not stage fictional immigrant arrivals as documentary images.
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An arrival can contain a whole life story. At Ellis Island, the former immigration station offers a place to consider the people behind the larger history of migration. Check construction and exhibit notices before planning your museum visit.
What family object would you choose to tell a story about moving somewhere new?
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