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Based on a fieldwork that follows Ukrainian refugee routes through Poland, the article discusses methodological potentials of letting museum workers follow the trajectories of forced mobility beyond national borders. The article demonstrates how museums – by “following the people” across time and space - can collect testimonies which provide a corporeal sense of the deterritorialized movements and experiences of displacement. Using sensory methods, the multi-sensoriality of these movements can be captured and elongated to future scholars and museum visitors. Similarly, museum objects collected along refugee routes yield affective force and, thus, an ability to move researchers and visitors emotionally and corporeally. Accordingly, the article argues that transborder documentation can place transnational and constantly changing movements at the core of their collection, research, and communication on migration – thus challenging museal tendencies to affirm nationalist narratives of migration as unidirectional processes with permanent settlement and assimilation as ultimate goals.