Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Featured Traveling Exhibitions from the Schomburg Center’s Traveling Exhibition Program

The Schomburg Center has an extensive traveling exhibition program designed to offer exhibitions to cultural institutions and organizations interested in presenting programs on the history and culture of people of African descent. The Schomburg Center offers two types of traveling exhibitions: Major Exhibitions include original photographs and are available only to facilities with lighting and security at museum-quality standards. Panel Exhibitions are either free-standing framed photo-text panels or wall-hung framed photo-text panels on masonite. They can be booked for four to eight weeks. For all exhibitions the Schomburg Center supplies text panels and labels, and sample press kits with releases and photographs. In addition to basic rental fees, local sponsors are responsible for insurance and shipping costs to and from the exhibition site. All exhibition sites must have controlled environments and must meet Schomburg Center security and fire control standards. For a full list of Center exhibitions, and for information about the Schomburg Center’s Traveling Exhibition program, contact Tei Sing Smith at (212) 491-2204.

NEW TRAVELING EXHIBITION

In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
African Americans, perhaps more than any other populations in the Americas, have been shaped by migrations. Their culture and history are the products of black peoples’ various movements, coerced and voluntary, that started in the Western Hemisphere 500 years ago. Everywhere their thirst for freedom, education, and opportunities brought them African Americans have recreated themselves and transformed the land, the cities, the culture, and ultimately the nation. With seventy-five framed photographs, panel text introducing each of the thirteen migrations, documents and artifacts, and a companion Web site, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience examines how African Americans, constantly in motion, have formed and transformed themselves and their landscape through migration.

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Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
Drawing on the rich and diverse collections of the Schomburg Center, Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery examines 400 years of slavery. Utilizing recent scholarship, this four-color, thirty-one panel exhibition recognizes the oppression, exploitation, and victimization that characterized the transatlantic slave trade but emphasizes the way in which African peoples throughout the Western Hemisphere invented themselves and created social, political, economic, and cultural organizations in the face of overwhelming obstacles. From the abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the much-revered Jamaican guerrilla fighter Nanny to the self-educated Ignatius Sancho, whose letters provide insights into the mind of enslaved Africans, to the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoëira, Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery illuminates the ways in which enslaved Africans developed their own unique culture in the midst of slavery.