April 2019

"Einsiedeln elsewhere" in the exhibit of the National Museum in Schwyz

It is probably a kind of ultimate acknowledgement that in April 2019 the project has become part of the exhibit of the National Museum in Schwyz and of Forum Swiss History, Switzerland elsewhere.

Switzerland elsewhere

Today some 751,800 Swiss are residing in some 200 countries around the globe. Many have permanently settled in the host country, others plan to return at some date. Migratory movements belong to historical normality: Until the French Revolution, foreign military service was for Swiss men one of the main migratory form, but also emigrations of artisans, merchants, clerics, scholars and other professionals were and remained important. In the 19th century mass migrants from Switzerland became settlers in the lands newly conquered by Europeans and their descendants in the northern Western Hemisphere as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Whole groups moved abroad in hopes of economic and social progress.

The exhibit features the founding of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad and tells the fascinating story of earlier and present day emigrants. Exceptional items, photos, and films highlight special personalities – as for example the "Turkey Müller" of Luzern who had become director of the Oriental Railroad in Istanbul.

A varied general program invites interest in the topic – how about doing research in one's own family history? On selected Sundays, the "Bureau for Migrants' Histories" invites visitors to tell emigration stories relating to their families, and to write them up.
 
Exhibition flyer, German

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