Ellis Island Development Concept Plan

This Development Concept Plan / Final Environmental Impact Statement has been prepared by the National Park Service (NPS) to consider alternative adaptive reuses for the 30 remaining vacant and deteriorating buildings of Ellis Island and access to the island. Click here for more information.

NPS

This artist's rendering shows part of the new Peopling of America exhibit planned at Ellis Island

The Peopling of America exhibit

This exciting new undertaking will enlarge the story currently told of the Ellis Island Era (1892-1954) to include the entire panorama of the American immigration experience. It will include exhibits dedicated to those who arrived before Ellis Island opened and those who arrived between 1954 and the present.

The project is expected to be completed in 2011. The goal is to enable all visitors, regardless of when or how their families arrived in the United States, to find "their stories" and to make a personal connection to this special unit of the National Park Service.