Obstacles are delaying the grand opening of a museum and community center in Mobile’s Africatown neighborhood.
A slowdown in global shipping has moved the Heritage House Museum’s opening into 2022, AL.com reports. A pre-fabricated house will house the community center. Its arrival has been pushed back to November.
The community center will feature an exhibit on the slave ship Clotilda. Descendants of Clotilda passengers founded the Africatown neighborhood over 160 years ago. Other projects remain on hold until Heritage House opens.
A 24 minute film on Africatown by the Savannah College of Arts and Design won’t be released until then. Africatown residents are also working on a musical version of the Clotilda story.
The Heritage House community center and museum is currently set to open in the first quarter of 2022.