This museum is designed to facilitate the reconstruction of the recently discovered slave ship The Clotilda. The ship was burned in 1860 after carrying 110 african american men and women across the Atlantic Ocean. This center seeks to facilitate a space to reckon with the dark history of slavery, and for visitors to embrace the ship’s reconstruction and powerful memory. 

The river where the site is proposed is designed to be in constant reference for visitors, where aperatures provide a space of rest in connection to the landscape while one digests the heavy content. Here, an ecological restoration of the museum campus along the shore looks to bring the community back to its natural past.