Although “returns of retirement” have been recognized as a distinct category of return migration as early as the mid-1970s, and identified as lying on the intersection of two highly important phenomena: ageing and migration, “retirement return migration” has not yet received the full attention it deserves. To aid in filling this research gap, my paper looks at the case of retired guest-workers returning from Germany and other countries of the Global North to their native Serbia and Bosnia. My paper is based on content analysis of a museum exhibit entitled “Gastarbeiter stories: On the other side of the Pliva river,” collected and curated by staff at the “Museum of Yugoslavia” in Belgrade, Serbia and the “History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina” in Sarajevo, BiH. The analyzed data include 18 interviews with retired guestworkers, and various exhibit artefacts, such as their personal letters and photographs, pieces of autobiographic writing, school diplomas, snippets of interactions with German citizens, and copies of German pension certificates. The museum exhibit delivers a unique perspective on guest worker programs by outlining the grand historical narrative and infusing its “dream space” with a private glimpse into the lives of individual labor migrants and their families. The interviews and material objects generate knowledge about guest worker programs and retirement return migration by offering a personal lens to examine a global phenomenon.