Africatown Heritage House Tops New Museums List

National Geographic UK named the Africatown Heritage House in Mobile as the best museum in the U.S. for 2023. “The Alabama city made headlines in 2019 when the mouldering remains of the Clotilda—the last known ship to bring captive Africans into the U.S. in the mid-19th century—was discovered in the Mobile River,” it explained. “Pieces of the vessel will be displayed at Africatown Heritage House, curated by the History Museum of Mobile, and will be preserved alongside West African objets d’art (the captive passengers were stolen from Benin) and exhibits sharing the story of Africatown, the community that formed after the ship reached the shore.” According to the History Museum of Mobile, the exhibition will officially open to the public on July 8 with a ribbon cutting and several days of programming.