And the walls came tumblin' down...
GREAT MUSEUMS is at work documenting the creation of the last museum to be built on our National Mall. Construction of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (SNMAAHC) began in 2012. The new museum is scheduled to open in 2015.
A central exhibit in the museum will be a 19th century slave cabin from Point of Pines Plantation on Edisto Island, South Carolina. The cabin was donated to the museum by the Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society.
In May 2013, GREAT MUSEUMS traveled to Edisto Island to document the physical acquisition of the slave cabin. The cabin was taken down board by board, cataloged and numbered, stacked, wrapped, and loaded onto a flatbed trailer. The singing began as everyone present participated in the dismantling of the last wall.