Go on an exciting journey and experience the history of immigration and emigration over four different periods in the emigration museum BallinStadt Hamburg. In a total of three houses on 2,500 square meters, you will accompany people with all their wishes and dreams on their way to a new home. Get to know Albert Ballin, the founder of the emigration halls in Hamburg at that time, and follow in the footsteps of your ancestors in the BallinStadt family research center.
At a historical location, the emigration museum BallinStadt Hamburg focuses on emigration via Hamburg (1850 - 1934) as well as the development of migration over four epochs. Always accompanied by human longings, fates, and stories. The reasons for migration are still timeless today. Escape from war, hunger and persecution or simply the desire for adventure, curiosity and the dream of a new (better) life are then as now the impetus for emigration and thus also immigration.
BallinStadt Hamburg Emigration Museum entrance ticket
- Visit a successful combination of museum and adventure world on the topic of migration
- Get a lot of information about immigration and emigration
- Play the interactive game “Simmigrant” with hidden clues for children
- Follow the museum-rat Jette through the hands-on museum for small children
- Conduct genealogical researches in an international database (in cooperation with "Ancestry")
Entrance ticket
Entrance ticket
- Please note that the majority of the texts in the exhibition are in German. Visitors are welcome to take hard copies in English, French, and Polish free of charge at the front desk
- The audio stations at the exhibition are in German and English
- Animals are not permitted in the exhibition rooms
- Infants (age 0-4) are free of charge and don´t need a ticket
- Please use the ticket option "reduced" for schoolchildren, students, trainees, pensioners, the severely disabled, and the unemployed
- Opening times of the museum: Wednesday - Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (last visit 3:30 p.m.)
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