New Museum in Charleston will Explore the African American Experience

The 150,000-square-foot International African American Museum of Charleston, South Carolina, is expected to open in January of 2023. The museum will feature the horrors of the slave trade and the resilience of enslaved people through nine exhibition galleries and a memorial garden.

Charleston has chosen to embrace its darker history rather than avoiding it as a result of cultural shifts in the community.

Original post by Jane Recker/Smithsonian Magazine

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