Posted on Dec 20, 2023
The idea of a national African American museum went back 100 years before its opening
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After My Time as Master at Arms to Chief of Staff Commander Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and Aide de Campe to Maggy Turner 1st Female Black Line Officer to Make Captain USN. I'm Pretty Sure though My Oldest Granddaughter has been there.
After My Time as Master at Arms to Chief of Staff Commander Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and Aide de Campe to Maggy Turner 1st Female Black Line Officer to Make Captain USN. I'm Pretty Sure though My Oldest Granddaughter has been there.
The idea of a national African American museum went back 100 years before its opening
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..."Living in the present and looking to the future
The museum's current director, Kevin Young, began his term in January 2021, while the museum was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NMAAHC typically boasts millions of visitors a year, but in 2020 and 2021, the number of visits dropped to the 300,000 range. The museum closed in early 2020, temporarily reopened, then closed again until May 2021.
During that time, Young spearheaded the Searchable Museum, a platform that allows users to explore exhibits online with added elements, such as videos, podcasts and "constellations" — interactive diagrams that link historical events, figures and objects.
Kevin Young, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, speaks at a screening of <em>Black Panther:Wakanda Forever</em> at the museum on Oct. 30, 2022.
Young was there to welcome the people lined up to enter when the museum opened its doors again. One family had with them an artifact of the first woman killed in combat in the U.S.
"I was thinking so much about that day," Young said. "It was all those family members, seeing them, and they had waited, and they had saved up and they had come to the museum, come together, and it was a site of pilgrimage, and I'm always struck by that."
The pandemic emphasized the need to capture major events as they continue to happen, Young said.
"I think living history is all the more important to help people understand that we're living through history, but they can also — especially with our young people — make history, and that history is all around us. And it's alive," he said.
For Conwill, her goal in beginning work on the museum was rooted in her desire for young people to feel seen.
"I want it to be a place that helps my nieces and nephews walk tall on this earth," she said."
..."Living in the present and looking to the future
The museum's current director, Kevin Young, began his term in January 2021, while the museum was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The NMAAHC typically boasts millions of visitors a year, but in 2020 and 2021, the number of visits dropped to the 300,000 range. The museum closed in early 2020, temporarily reopened, then closed again until May 2021.
During that time, Young spearheaded the Searchable Museum, a platform that allows users to explore exhibits online with added elements, such as videos, podcasts and "constellations" — interactive diagrams that link historical events, figures and objects.
Kevin Young, director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, speaks at a screening of <em>Black Panther:Wakanda Forever</em> at the museum on Oct. 30, 2022.
Young was there to welcome the people lined up to enter when the museum opened its doors again. One family had with them an artifact of the first woman killed in combat in the U.S.
"I was thinking so much about that day," Young said. "It was all those family members, seeing them, and they had waited, and they had saved up and they had come to the museum, come together, and it was a site of pilgrimage, and I'm always struck by that."
The pandemic emphasized the need to capture major events as they continue to happen, Young said.
"I think living history is all the more important to help people understand that we're living through history, but they can also — especially with our young people — make history, and that history is all around us. And it's alive," he said.
For Conwill, her goal in beginning work on the museum was rooted in her desire for young people to feel seen.
"I want it to be a place that helps my nieces and nephews walk tall on this earth," she said."
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