‘LA Cite nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration’, a new museum in the centre of Paris that examines the history of immigration into France over the last 200 years, opened in Paris in October.

The new museum, based at the Palais de la Porte Doree, focuses on the last 200 years of immigration into the country over several permanent and temporary exhibitions, featuring controversial exhibitions examining the struggle for Algeria in the late 20th century and the complicity of the Vichy government in the deportation of French Jews to extermination camps in Eastern Europe.

The Museum will also be featuring a range of art exhibitions over the coming year, including a photographic exhibition, Ellis Island Portraits, which runs until January 2008, displaying images of American immigrants during the first decade of the last century.

The Museum offers discounts on entry for groups.

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