Fenix museum shows how we are all migrants

29 May 2025, The Tablet

No direction home: (above) an overcrowded boat arrives on Lesbos (Sergey Ponomarev, 2015); (below) the Fenix’s steel Tornado staircase rooftop; (top right) from Omar Victor Diop’s Diaspora series(2014-2015)

Sergey Ponomarev; Iwan Baan; Collection Fenix

Beside the Rotterdam dockside they call the pier of tears, a new museum called Fenix has opened its doors.

Among the exhibits: hundreds of suitcases piled on top of one another, a boat used by Syrian refugees fleeing to the Italian island of Lampedusa, and a photograph of Albert Einstein.

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