International Slavery Museum

reBlogged from Robert Goldwater Library blog:
Posted by Ross Day on September 28, 2006 at 08:58 PM

International Slavery Museum

The photo (c Bob Duck via Flickr) is from the slave market memorial in Stonetown, Zanzibar

 

You don't always get the chance to highlight a museum nearly a year before it opens (Musée du quai Branly notwithstanding). National Museums Liverpool is working hard on the future International Slavery Museum.

Of the museum's vision, Dr. David Fleming OBE, Director of National Museums Liverpool, writes:

The transatlantic slave trade was the greatest forced migration in history. And yet the story of the mass enslavement of Africans by Europeans is one of resilience and survival against all the odds, and is a testament to the unquenchable nature of the human spirit.

In 1994, National Museums Liverpool opened the Transatlantic Slavery Gallery, the first of its kind in the world. This gallery has achieved huge visitor numbers and impact, but there is now a pressing need to tell a bigger story because of its relevance to contemporary issues that face us all.  

Our vision is to create a major new International Slavery Museum to promote the understanding of transatlantic slavery and its enduring impact.  

Our aim is to address ignorance and misunderstanding by looking at the deep and permanent impact of slavery and the slave trade on Africa, South America, the USA, the Caribbean and Western Europe. Thus we will increase our understanding of the world around us.

The new Museum will open its display galleries on 23 August 2007, Slavery Remembrance Day. 2007 is the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade and 23 August commemorates the date of the outbreak of the slave rebellion, which created the first independent Black republic of Haiti.

The photo (c Bob Duck via Flickr) is from the slave market memorial in Stonetown, Zanzibar

 

You don't always get the chance to highlight a museum nearly a year before it opens (Musée du quai Branly notwithstanding). National Museums Liverpool is working hard on the future International Slavery Museum.

Of the museum's vision, Dr. David Fleming OBE, Director of National Museums Liverpool, writes:

The transatlantic slave trade was the greatest forced migration in history. And yet the story of the mass enslavement of Africans by Europeans is one of resilience and survival against all the odds, and is a testament to the unquenchable nature of the human spirit.

In 1994, National Museums Liverpool opened the Transatlantic Slavery Gallery, the first of its kind in the world. This gallery has achieved huge visitor numbers and impact, but there is now a pressing need to tell a bigger story because of its relevance to contemporary issues that face us all.  

Our vision is to create a major new International Slavery Museum to promote the understanding of transatlantic slavery and its enduring impact.  

Our aim is to address ignorance and misunderstanding by looking at the deep and permanent impact of slavery and the slave trade on Africa, South America, the USA, the Caribbean and Western Europe. Thus we will increase our understanding of the world around us.

The new Museum will open its display galleries on 23 August 2007, Slavery Remembrance Day. 2007 is the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade and 23 August commemorates the date of the outbreak of the slave rebellion, which created the first independent Black republic of Haiti.