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The International African American Museum (IAAM) is a museum of African-American history in Charleston, South Carolina, located at a former shipping wharf where approximately 40% of the nation's enslaved persons disembarked. The museum opened June 27, 2023, [3] after 20 years of planning. [4]
IAAM is now the second-largest museum focused on African American history, after only the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.
Walter Hood’s plantings and plazas at the new International African American Museum are more than just a garden. In Charleston, a Powerful New Landscape Recounts the Harrowing Passage of ...
Twenty years after its inception and six months past its initial launch date, the International African American Museum (IAAM) will The post The International African American Museum to open this ...
[9] [10] Early advocates for the museum also include Congressmen Jim Clyburn, [11] and now retired College of Charleston professor of history. Retired College of Charleston professor Bernard Powers was named the interim CEO of the International African American Museum.
On May 22, 2024, the sculpture "Floyd" was unveiled at the International African American Museum (IAAM) in Charleston, South Carolina. Created by Dan Reisner in 2020, shortly after the tragic incident in Minneapolis, Minnesota." Floyd", Commemorates George Floyd's murder, featuring tree rings at the neck's base representing the duration of his ...
When the International African American Museum opens to the public Tuesday in South Carolina, it becomes a new site of homecoming and pilgrimage for descendants of enslaved Africans whose arrival ...
An exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Museums not only collect and preserve historic and cultural material, their basic purpose is educational or aesthetic. The first African American museum was the College Museum in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1868. [2]