Ticking the box? Material cultures of migration in Museum Rotterdam and the Netherlands Open Air Museum compares the ways in which the Netherlands Open Air Museum in Arnhem and Museum Rotterdam handled the subject of migration. Among others things, the publication goes into what the subject means to residents and visitors, as well as to the museums themselves, as institutions that collect, research and exhibit material culture. How did migration come to be an important theme (e.g. for research) for museums?