Germans in Britain: a Migration Museum Project touring exhibition

This fascinating story is peppered with both familiar and unfamiliar names. Many people know about Ludwig Guttmann, whose work at Stoke Mandeville hospital in effect founded the Paralympic movement; but what about the Nuremberg engineer who founded Triumph motorbikes in Coventry? Or the early 19^th century German chemist whose company eventually became British Gas?

Other famous British brands such as Dr Martens and Persil are also a product of Anglo German cooperation. One of Britain’s best-known seaside buildings, the de la Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, was designed by a German architect, and English art would not be the same without Hans Holbein, who brought Renaissance painting to the court of Henry VIII.

“Germans in Britain” is curated by Dr Cathy Ross, Honorary Research Fellow at the Museum of London. The Migration Museum Project plans to create the UK’s first dedicated Migration Museum, to tell the story of movement into and out of the UK.

This pop-up exhibition will be on display in the Event Space (adjacent to the Gallery) on the ground floor of the Sir Duncan Rice Library. Admission is FREE.