The International African American Museum (IAAM) has been included in TIME magazine’s list of the “World’s Greatest Places of 2024.” The museum was the only South Carolina entity included on the list of 100 places.
TIME Magazine released a statement that said: “The nation’s second largest African American museum finally opened last summer. To symbolize the sacredness of its location on Gadsden’s Wharf, a place where African captives arrived by the thousands, the International African American Museum (IAAM) is elevated 13 feet above the ground. The experience of visiting kicks off in the African
Ancestors Memorial Garden, designed by landscape architect and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Walter Hood, with installations such as ‘Tide Tribute,’ a fountain of water washing over a replica of the horrifically cruel ‘Brookes’ slave ship diagram, honoring its human cargo. Inside, a glassed entrance opens to 8-foot screens flashing faces of the African Diaspora and pre-colonial landscapes, teasing the expansive interactive journey of tragedy and triumph that unfolds over the museum’s 22,280-plussquare-foot gallery space.”
The IAAM opened on June 27, 2023.
