hopePlate 712 · Washington, United States

National Museum of African American History and Culture

A corona of bronze lattice, a museum that had been missing from the Mall.

2016 · David Adjaye · North America

The chamber score

Music for 18 Musicians

Steve Reich · 1976

A grid that repeats until it glows.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

Adjaye's museum, a landmark of 21st-century American civic architecture.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct National Museum of African American History and Culture through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

Open a commission

Shift the feeling

What if National Museum of African American History and Culture was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.