JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM EDUCATION 2023, VOL. 5, Special Issue, 148-160 https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/jimuseumed JIMuseumED 2023 JIMuseumED Museum Stories from European Migration Road Ceren Güneröz Ankara University Ayşem Yanar Ankara University Fatih Özçelik Vorarlberg Museum, Austria ABSTRACT The museum, whose new definition was announced by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) in 2022, brings to the agenda its public, accessible, and inclusive structure; as an institution that promotes diversity and sustainability for society, it is a candidate to shape the future. The definition of museum, in terms of its functions, holds museums responsible for carrying out museology with ethical and professional understandings, considering the participation of the society in the implementation stages. 2023's 18 May International Museum Day theme is "sustainability and well-being". ICOM brings to the agenda the responsibility of museums, which it defines as trustworthy institutions and ties in our shared social fabric, to create a cascading effect to promote positive change and sustainability. In this theme, sustainability focuses on practices, such as being active in environmental action, fighting social isolation, developing inclusive policies and practices, and protecting mental health. With the museum day theme that overlaps with the new museum definition, museums that include inclusivity on their agenda can follow an approach to diversify their social functions to implement sustainability. In this case, it will be seen that they often choose challenging topics to fulfil the condition of creating meaning by using the concepts of identity, race, multiculturalism, inclusion, participation, and diversity to make the visitor experience the museum on a hermeneutic basis. Migration, which has become one of the main problems, is among the issues that are difficult to handle. This study questions the ways of using museum exhibitions and events to negotiate the differences and prejudices in the treatment of the phenomenon of migration, in line with the concepts discussed in the new museum definition, through Austrian examples. The fact that migration is one of the most important phenomena that rapidly shapes cities in demographic, socio-political and cultural contexts requires that samples of the theme of migration in the museums in and around Vorarlberg, Austria, be evaluated within the framework of the new museum definition. In this context, how museums in and around Vorarlberg, Austria, handle this phenomenon, and the studies carried out in museums towards immigrants and refugees, have been examined in detail. Keywords: Austria, Vorarlberg, inclusivity, participation, sustainability, migration museum Type: Review Article History Received: 17.10.2023 Accepted: 03.11.2023 Published: 10.11.2023 Corresponding Author: Ayşem YANAR Türkiye on the UNESCO World Heritage List Suggested Citation Güneröz, C., Yanar, A. & Özçelik, F. (2023). Museum stories from European migration road. Journal of International Museum Education, 5(Special Issue), 148-160. https://doi.org/10.51637/jimuseumed.1376423