International African American Museum

The International African American Museum (IAAM) is in Charleston, South Carolina on the site of Gadsden’s Wharf, where more than 40% of all American slaves disembarked after their forced journey from Africa to America. The African American Museum explores cultures and knowledge systems retained and adapted by Africans in the Americas, and the diverse journeys and achievements of these individuals and their descendants in South Carolina, the United States, and throughout the African Diaspora. In close coordination with IAAM curatorial, scholar and advisory teams, Cortina Productions designed and produced 37 media exhibits that share a global perspective of the African and African American journey.

Images: © Sahar Coston-Hardy/Esto. All rights reserved.

TEAM
Media Design and Production by Cortina Productions
Exhibit Design by Ralph Appelbaum Associates
AV Systems by JCI

Project Highlights

17 Videos
13 Media as Artifact
4 Interactives
3 Audioscapes

Intermingled in the American Journeys Gallery are six Flashpoint videos, which feature contemporary conversations among the local African descendant community about different topics.

The Gullah Geechee Gallery features videos that explore the history and culture of the Gullah Geechee of the South Carolina Lowcountry told exclusively through originally shot interviews with people who identify as Gullah Geechee.

The immersive Atlantic Worlds video is presented on a 31-foot-long LED video wall, which takes visitors to historically significant locations of the diaspora throughout the Atlantic World.

The Family Research Center features interactive kiosks that provide information, such as an introduction to the Center, an introduction to the online software, FamilySearch, in which visitors can do genealogical research, and stories about Lowcountry communities in South Carolina.