International African American Museum debuts in Charleston.
The International African American Museum has opened in Charleston, South Carolina, on the site of the former Gadsden's Wharf, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans first entered the United States. The museum is the first major new museum of African American history in the country to bring the whole Afro-Atlantic world, including Africa itself, fully into the picture. The museum's architecture, designed by Henry N. Cobb and Curt Moody, is responsive to the institution's complex global-local agenda. The museum is a monument to survival and continuance, situating Gadsden's Wharf, and Charleston, on a wide map still being explored and expanded.