thumb|German Emigration Center {{Location map|Bremen |float = right |alt = German Emigration Center |label = German Emigration Center |caption = German Emigration Center, Bremerhaven |position = right }} The '''German Emigration Center''' ({{langx|de|'''Deutsches Auswandererhaus'''}}) is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. It is Europe's largest theme museum about emigration. Visitors can experience the emigration process through interactive exhibits. The museum also provides access to databases of immigration records.<ref>[http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/english.html German Emigration Center Bremerhaven] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512005016/http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/english.html |date=2012-05-12 }}</ref>
The museum opened on August 8, 2005.<ref>{{in lang|de}} Joachim Baur, [http://www.domid.org/pdf/Baur_Auswandererhaus_Bremerhaven.pdf Expokritik: ''Ein Migrationsmuseum der anderen Art. Das Deutsche Auswanderer-Haus in Bremerhaven''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328055120/http://www.domid.org/pdf/Baur_Auswandererhaus_Bremerhaven.pdf |date=2012-03-28 }}. In: ''Werkstatt Geschichte'' 15, 2006, Nr. 42, S. 97-103</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de German Emigration Center Website], in German and English
==Further reading== * Bade, Klaus J. "From emigration to immigration: The German experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." ''Central European History'' 28.4 (1995): 507–535. *{{Cite book | last = Quirin | first = Katrin | title = Das Buch zum Deutschen Auswandererhaus = The German Emigration Center Book. | publisher = DAH | edition = 2nd ubarb. und erw. | year = 2009 | location = Bremerhaven [Germany] | language = German, English | isbn = 978-3-00-028384-0 }} {{Bremerhaven}} {{coord|53|32|43|N|8|34|27|E|display=title|region:DE-HB_type:landmark_source:dewiki}} {{Authority control}}
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