The labour of place: Memory and extended reality (XR) in migration museums

How do we understand the relationship between memory and place in context of Extended Reality (XR) migration museum exhibitions? The study combines a global mapping XR within museums, user analysis Cologne’s virtual museum, practice-led research with UK Migration Museum to argue that places Web 2.0 constitute multiplication memory’s significant localities. These include beginning (the location migrant experience), production (where is transformed into representation) consumption mediated engaged with, looked at, heard). Mnemonic labour involving digital frictions at each these sites constitutes form multiple place-making complex feelings, meanings, (dis)connections. This points an innovative approach understanding curating experiences museums recognises significance place.