Be.Welcome @ Atomium
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Written by BrusselsLife Team -
21 Feb 2010, 00:00
(Updated: 13 Dec 2012, 07:59)
From the end of May to next September, the Atomium, in association with the Museum of Europe, will present " Be. Welcome ", an exhibition dedicated to the history of foreigners and immigration in Belgium.
After "Bipolar" and "Africa Fast Forward", the Atomium offers to the Belgian and foreign public a new exhibition of society. It's important to be interested in this debate by feeding the reflection by a dive in the heart of the migratory reality.
A very playful exhibition
Proposed in the context of the Belgian presidency of the European Union in 2010, this initiative offers an innovative glance on the migratory phenomenon. It will be the opportunity to offer to the visitors an interactive approach of this social phenomenon. The exhibition builds itself in knocks of projectors given onto the migratory phenomenon in the widest sense. No way to be exhaustive nor to lead the visitor in a logical route of which every stage would be necessary for the understanding of the following one. The testimonies are privileged but factual data will be present in every space. The objective is to provoke the interrogation, the surprise at the visitor.Museum of Europe
If the Museum of Europe collaborates with Be. Welcome, it is not a coincidence! Its objective is to deal with Europe as civilization, in other words in all its dimensions, historic, cultural, political and social. Its exhibitions concerned the European unification, the religious practices or the genocidal phenomenon. So, the participation of the Museum in the conception and the creation of an exhibition on the migratory phenomenon in Belgium was obvious. Indeed, the immigraton is a part of the history of Belgium but also of Europe.Be. Welcome will travel
After Le Bois du Cazier in Charleroi and probably Antwerp, this exhibition, conceived to move, should constitute the base of a center of migrations. Place of exhibition as much as a research and studty center of the migratory phenomenon, this space has to allow the appropriation of a history which speaks of and to each of us. Various nationalities participated in what Belgium is today: a rich country thanks to its cultural diversity. The aim of Be. Welcome is to develop the glances and the mentalities as well as take the heat out of the phenomenon. Furthermore, audio-guide will be in all the official languages of Europe.
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