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Exhibits at the Ellis Island Museum
The museum's galleries combine immigration records, personal objects, photographs, and oral histories. Follow the Ellis Island processing story first, then use the wider migration exhibits to place it in context.
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The exhibits answer different questions. Historic station displays show what an arrival faced at Ellis Island, while the Peopling of America galleries cover migration before the station opened and after it closed. The Family Immigration History Center offers a more personal path through passenger records if you have a name to investigate.
Useful to know
Begin with the former station rooms before moving to galleries about earlier and later immigration.
Bring a relative's name and approximate arrival year if you hope to search passenger records.
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