New Ellis Island center completes immigration story

NEW YORK (AP) — A new center opening next month at the Ellis Island Museum completes the story of immigration to America.

The Peopling of America Center opens on May 20.

The museum will then be officially renamed the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration.

The center opens following the completion of exhibitions that focus on immigration after Ellis Island closed as a port of entry in 1954.

The center also includes exhibitions that explore the American immigrant journey prior to the island becoming a processing station in 1892. Those galleries opened in 2011.

With the center's opening, the museum will chronicle the American immigration experience through the centuries, from the 1550s to the present.

The stories are told through audio stories, interpretive graphics, films and interactive displays.

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