Our Purpose
The Museum of Haiti–United States Relations is a university-based initiative dedicated to preserving and activating the historical, cultural, and intellectual legacies connecting Haiti and the United States.
Rooted in scholarship and shaped by community voice, it gathers archives, testimonies, exhibits, and educational resources that have long lived across libraries, families, churches, congregations, and institutions — and brings them into one living, accessible digital home open to students, educators, researchers, artists, civic leaders, and the public.
The museum exists to ensure that the relationship between these two republics — the first and second nations of the Americas to claim independence — is remembered with depth, taught with rigor, and carried forward with care.
A Bridge Between Two Anniversaries
From the United States' 250th anniversary in 2026 to Haiti's 250th anniversary in 2054, the project builds a long-term bridge of memory, education, culture, and diaspora leadership.
These twenty-eight years are not a countdown — they are a curriculum, an archive, and a movement. Each year deepens the shared record between the two nations and prepares a new generation of educators, students, archivists, artists, faith leaders, and civic organizers to carry the story forward.
The arc from 2026 to 2054 is intentional: it allows the museum to grow with the communities it serves, to follow a generation of young people from classrooms into leadership, and to mark the Haitian bicentennial-and-fifty with an institution worthy of the occasion.
Four Pillars
Memory
A digital museum and timeline of Haiti–USA relations from 1776 to 2054 — diplomatic, military, religious, cultural, intellectual, and everyday exchanges, anchored in primary sources and community testimony.
Education
School kits, lesson plans, reading lists, and resources for teachers, students, universities, libraries, and youth programs in both countries and across the diaspora.
Culture
Exhibits, public programs, residencies, and partnerships with museums, libraries, faith institutions, and cultural organizations that hold and interpret this shared heritage.
Leadership
A diaspora memory collection and a 2054 vision registry that mobilize community, civic, academic, and institutional leaders to shape what the next generation inherits.
A Public for the Record
The museum is built for the people whose lives, families, and communities carry this history: Haitian and Haitian-American families, American neighbors and partners, students of every age, scholars and teachers, faith communities, civic leaders, journalists, and artists.
Every artifact, every page, and every program is designed to be useful — in a classroom in Port-au-Prince, a sanctuary in Brooklyn, a university in Miami, a town hall in Boston, a living room in Cap-Haïtien.
Join the Record
History is written by those who choose to remember. The museum invites families to contribute photographs and testimony, institutions to share archives, educators to adopt resources, and partners to walk these twenty-eight years with us.
What we build between 2026 and 2054 will outlast us. Let it be built together.