The Migration Museum Project and Southwark Council are joining forces to create an important exhibition.

Women who now live in the London borough will showcase special items handed down to them from previous generations, all showing a very characteristic heritage.

“My aunt sent me this Somalian sash as a gift. Only married women in Somalia wear these head headscarves, but I used to wear it when I was 15 and got some funny looks from Somalian women,” said one woman.

The organisation says, “Keepsakes is a display of personal items that keep memories of migration and identity alive. Museum collections represent society’s decisions about what objects are valuable enough to hand down to future generations. But museum objects matter less to most people than the objects their parents and grandparents chose to pass on to them, and which they hand on to their own children and grandchildren.”

The exhibition will take place from March 22-29 from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m in the Southwark Council building, 160 Tooley Street.