Before Yesterday We Could Fly
from 5 Nov 2021 at Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room is an art exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Opened on November 5, 2021, the show uses the traditional period room format to envision the past, present, and future home of someone who once lived in Seneca Village — a largely African American settlement that was demolished in the mid-1800s to make way for the construction of Central Park.
By blending historical research with Afrofuturist imagination, the installation invites visitors to reckon with an erased community and to picture what its legacy might look like across time.
By blending historical research with Afrofuturist imagination, the installation invites visitors to reckon with an erased community and to picture what its legacy might look like across time.
About the venue
Metropolitan Museum of Art
· New York City
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas. With 5,727,258 visitors in fiscal year 2025, it was the most-visited museum in…
