Red Star Line Museum
Restored harbour sheds where emigrants were inspected and disinfected before sailing to America.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp is about the people who worked in these harbour sheds, the doctors and clerks who checked third-class emigrants before they sailed for America. It follows them from open hangars on the quay to a cramped red-brick warehouse, and asks why a shipping company cared so much about who boarded. Stand facing the largest building, the Art Deco block, while you listen.
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