The Museum of the African Diaspora

Our Focus

Our focus spans the African Diaspora across history, from the diaspora at the origin of human existence through the contemporary African Diaspora that has affected communities and cultures around the world.

Our Programs

Exhibition

 Through our Exhibition Program, MoAD offers a rotating schedule of exhibitions of artworks that focus specifically on Africa, the African American experience, and the African Diaspora. The Diaspora is described broadly as places where people of African descent created communities in the Caribbean, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Europe, the US, and other locations. Exhibits display artifacts borrowed from outside collections and much of the creative material is based on the social and cultural beliefs brought from Africa as a result of the slavetrade.

Public Programs

Each year, MoAD undertakes a wide range of public programs that include lectures, film screenings, gallery talks, author series and book readings, music and theatrical performances, and a broad and varied menu of other interdisciplinary programs that educate, entertain, and challenge our audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Education

MoAD’s education programs serve over 3,000 Bay Area youth in each year. These programs include curriculum development and teacher trainings, guided student tours, MoAD in the Classroom, an innovative in-school program for third graders, Behind the Lens, a six-week program where high school students are brought together to learn about and experience their artistic and cultural heritage through fashion and craft making, and I’ve Known Rivers, designed to collect, document, produce and archive “first voice” digital narratives about the lives of African Americans in San Francisco.