A Ribbon in the Sand
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A Ribbon in the Sand
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Elevation
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Remembrance Walk
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The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
The single-story volume of the International African American Museum hovers above historic Gadsden's Wharf.
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© Mike Habat
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
The African Ancestors Memorial Garden embraces the entire site, deploying elements of low-country landscape as it celebrates the arts, crafts, and labors of African Americans.
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© Sahar Coston-Hardy/Esto
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
The ebb and flow of water at the Tide Tribute reveals and conceals figures that represent enslaved Africans lying close together on the lower decks of a slave ship.
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© Sahar Coston-Hardy/Esto
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
A stainless steel band signifying the original edge of Gadsden’s Wharf is engraved with the names of ports of departure and arrival.
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© Mike Habat
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
The garden draws inspiration from the tapestry of the low-country landscape and the wide-reaching heritage of the African diaspora.
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© Sahar Coston-Hardy/Esto
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
The Stele Garden along the north side of the museum
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© Mike Habat
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Five kneeling concrete figures set between two polished granite walls are a haunting reminder of the hundreds of thousands of lives lost to the transatlantic slave trade.
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© Mike Habat
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Visitors ascend a monumental stair, drawn into the museum through a luminous atrium at the center of the building.
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© Mike Habat
The International African American Museum Opens, Honoring Sacred Ground
Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Transatlantic Gallery at the entry point to the east wing
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© Sahar Coston-Hardy/Esto