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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 Museum (IAAM), designed by New York–based architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, is now under way. Moody Nolan, the largest African-American-owned design firm in the United States, is architect of record.
The International African American Museum, now in construction at the site of historic Gadsden’s Wharf in Charleston, South Carolina, Image Courtesy © PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS Architects LLP
- Architects: PEI COBB FREED & PARTNERS Architects LLP
- Project: International African American Museum
- Location: Charleston, South Carolina
- Area: 41,800 sf gross floor area
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