A new museum is set to open in London this week, which will over nation's migrants, including its Indian diaspora, as part of efforts to provide context and calm increasingly heated and politicised. The Migration Museum will run at a venue in south London until at least early next year (with hopes of a more permanent venue after that). "It's a great story of people coming to and going from Britain over the centureies ...it's the topic that is on everyone's lips and has been so for the last five or ten years but in recent times the public conversation isn't very helpful and is often presented in a polarised way with extremely inflammatory language," says Sophie Henderson, a former immigration barrister and judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, who heads the Migration Museum Project. "What we can do by looking at migration in a cultural institution is take that story away from the heat of politics and give it a more considered, approach...where you can spend time and have a more enjoyable and informed look at the issue," she said. The migration Museum comes at a time when the issues of migration and race have become particularly emotionally charged, and prominent in political debate; the recent vicious attack on an asylum seeker has heightened concerns about intolerance and hate crimes. The Museum will begin wih two exhibitions: the first, a multi-media presentation on the vast refugee and migrant camp at Calais, migrant camp at Calais, whose tough conditions came to symbolise globally the depth of Europe's migration crisis. A second exhibiton, based on a past competition run with the Guardian newspaper, will provide a snapshot of the lives of migrants over the years, drawn from recent images, family photographs and other collections. Several images chronicle the lives of the Indian community in Leicester-from a Muslim wedding to Baisakhi celebrations and one of a woman in a sari proudly standing under the English flag of St. George.