Migration, cultural diversity and the growing ethnic-cultural mix that characterize contemporary society are nowadays a key issue for European museums. Since the 1990s a rich theoretical debate on the subject has been developed by scholars and the museums community at large, several ‘migration museums’ have been opened across Europe, while, most recently, a number of museums have been reassessing their collections and galleries in relation to issues such as emigration, immigration, cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue. This article aims at contributing to the debate with a museographical reflection on the subject by exploring its design implications, to finally suggest that the challenge for representing migration in museums does not only concern the museum’s curatorial approaches but also requires the development of new exhibition settings and practices.Keywords: exhibition design; migration museums; museography

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It is widely recognized that the years leading up to the Second World War saw the creation and expansion of Italian design firms and great developments in the culture of Italian design and architecture in general. This ferment fostered new ideas in Italian design and interior architecture during this period and attracted growing attention. In this context, the interior decoration of the great Italian ocean liners played a fundamental role. Their interiors were designed by some of the main figures in Italian architectural history: on the one hand, these projects produced a new naval style; on the other hand, they contained many of the peculiarities of the Italian approach to interior architecture. This article explores the relationship between the design of Italian ocean liners and the development of Italian design. It aims to demonstrate that the interior decoration of these ships not only represented