Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)
San Francisco, CA
The Museum of the African Diaspora occupies 20,000 Sq. Ft. on portions of three floors of the St. Regis Hotel and Residences designed by SOM. Located at the corner of Third and Mission Streets in San Francisco, MoAD is in the heart of the Yerba Buena cultural district and is a close neighbor to Mario Botta’s San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As a dynamic, world class institution, MoAD brings people of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds together so they can enjoy, study and appreciate, through enriching exhibitions, public and educational programs, the culture, history and art of people of African descent within the United States and throughout the world. The Museum’s Mission Street façade features a monumental image of hope as seen through the innocent eyes of an African child. Like the museum itself, the image is a collage of disparate voices, histories and traditions – in this case, a mosaic of photographs that begin to tell the story of the African Diaspora.