Where Does Genius Meet Geography?

Barely 2.5% of the 98,000 sites in the National Register of Historic Places are devoted to African American heritage. In 2023, only four Black heritage sites were designated for “Invention.”

Thus, we seek to pursue a quest:

“Where is the African American geography of genius: the hidden Atlas of Afrotech?"

Can storytelling and spatial technologies help joyfully repair legacies of erasure in public spaces?

THE MUSEUM OF HIDDEN GENIUS (MOHG) is a digital cabinet of curiosity using histories of African American invention, or “Afrotech”, to preserve, exhibit, and activate an atlas of hidden heritage worthy of wonder, adventure, and world-making in legacy cities.

Stay tuned.