Twenty years in the planning, the International African American Museum is now under construction

Charleston, United States
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Institutional Architecture, Culture, Event + Exhibition, Installation + Public art, Institutional Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Development, Urban Design

On the waterfront site that was the port of arrival for nearly half of all enslaved Africans brought to North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a long-anticipated museum dedicated to telling their stories and celebrating the contributions of their descendants has at last broken ground. Proposed in 2000 by Charleston’s longtime mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr., the International African American ... (continued)