Here's your chance to capture a piece of posterity for your family! The Belgian Red Star Line Museum -- which will essentially be a European counterpart to Ellis Island -- is looking for emigrant memorabilia and stories.
In the spring of 2012, the Red Star Line Museum of migration will open in Antwerp, Belgium. This new museum owes its name to the shipping company that -- between 1873 and 1939 -- brought more than two million passengers from the port of Antwerp to America and Canada. It will be located in the original departure halls in the old harbor district, at the very quay where hundreds of thousands of emigrants bound for the U.S. and Canada took their final steps on European soil.
In the spring of 2012, the Red Star Line Museum of migration will open in Antwerp, Belgium. This new museum owes its name to the shipping company that -- between 1873 and 1939 -- brought more than two million passengers from the port of Antwerp to America and Canada. It will be located in the original departure halls in the old harbor district, at the very quay where hundreds of thousands of emigrants bound for the U.S. and Canada took their final steps on European soil.
You can read more in an article by Megan Smolenyak at http://huff.to/aQawcd
