DUTCH VIRTUAL MUSEUM DEVOTED TO IMMIGRATION

Holland has got its first virtual museum: the mobile, interactive Museum for Diversity, devoted to the 500-year-long history of immigration to Holland and the cultural mix it brought along. It even seems strange that, in a country populated by representatives of 190 different ethnicities, no one had thought of such a museum before.

"No other museum like mine exists," confirms Reza Atlaschi (40), the creator of the Museum for Immigration and Diversity (Museum voor immigratie en diversiteit). "I call it Museum Without Walls, which also goes well with its main theme 'immigration, which in effect overcomes any wall," Atlaschi says.
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October 1, 2007