Immigration museum finds permanent residence - San Diego

After years of operating out of a tiny downtown office and an exhaustive search for a permanent home, San Diego’s first-ever museum dedicated to the topic of immigration is opening its doors in Point Loma next weekend.

The New Americans Museum will be one of a handful of such places around the world, among them the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and others in Paris and in Melbourne, Australia.

But unlike those, the San Diego space formerly known as the New Americans Immigration Museum will open with the word “immigration” conspicuously absent. Board members voted to drop it before the venue opened.”*

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