A real estate company and a local politician in Malmö are both dreaming about housing an immigration museum - a kind of Ellis Island in Malmö, the newspaper Sydsvenskan reports.

The real estate company Diligentia is currently planning five new housing and office blocks in Malmö's harbour. In one of them, the company hopes to house Sweden's first immigration museum. The company has sent a proposal to the town planners, outlining a Swedish version of Ellis Island outside New York, where most of the immigrant arrived to America a century ago.

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