California African American Museum

Though the California African American Museum is a state museum and thus focuses part of its collection on objects pertinent to the state, African Americans did not spontaneously arrive here. Rather, their journey traverses centuries, multiple legs and destinations. Theirs is a history of migration, adaptation and invention. To understand the historical and cultural transformation of Africans in America and especially in California, we must collect those objects, which help tell this American tale. To that end, our intention is to collect objects which explain and document the societies of Africans who were enslaved and transported to America from the west, coastal countries of Africa. Especially part of our concentration is on the period of the Transatlantic Slave ( www.caamuseum.org )