Charleston Currents – International African American Museum

MYSTERY PHOTO: Historic pensive marble statue

Here’s a statue that can be found in a historic South Carolina location. Send your best guess of what it is as well as something about it. Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our most recent mystery, “Some kind of construction going on,” stumped several readers. It showed the skeleton of the new International African American Museum along the banks of the Cooper River. The multi-million dollar museum is expected to open in 2022.

by Charleston Currents · 07/20/2020 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

A rendering of what the museum will look like. Source: IAAM.

GOOD NEWS: New museum’s groundbreaking to be Oct. 25

Staff reports | The International African American Museum (IAAM) will have a public groundbreaking ceremony 10 a.m. Oct. 25 with a theme of “Illuminating the African American Journey.”

“For almost 20 years, more than 1,000 individuals, corporations and foundations have been working to bring the museum into fruition,” said former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley in a press release. “The groundbreaking ceremony will give us an opportunity to express our deepest appreciation to the donors, volunteers and supporters who have worked so hard to get us to this milestone.”

by Charleston Currents · 10/21/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Good news, News briefs

FOCUS: New museum slated to start construction in summer

By Andy Brack, editor and publisher | Construction is expected to begin this summer for the $100 million International African American Museum on the Charleston site where an estimated 100,000 West Africans disembarked into slavery.

“This is an unusual opportunity for the city … to create something of enormous value to our country,” former Charleston Mayor Joe Riley told members of the Rotary Club of Charleston last week “We American’s don’t understand African American history. It’s important for the nation to be well-grounded in itself, its people, their contributions and their history.”

Charleston was an epicenter of the international slave trade at its peak …

by Andy Brack · 01/29/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news