The National Museum of African American History and Culture will install two of its signature objects in the museum’s Constitution Avenue construction site on Sunday, Nov. 17. The objects are the Museum’s Southern Railway railroad car (segregated) and a 1930s-era guard tower from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
A convoy of trucks will transport the 80-ton rail car and the 21-foot tall guard tower to the museum’s Constitution Avenue construction site. Cranes will lower the objects 60 feet below ground level into the museum where they will be kept while the building’s upper floors and roof are completed. Both objects will be featured in the museum’s inaugural exhibition on segregation.
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