Who we work with

Jesse Jackson arriving at the International Slavery Museum last year. Photograph © Simon Webb

The International Slavery Museum project has consulted and gained support from many organisations, institutions and individuals, including the following.

International

• Anti-Slavery International
• Barbados Museum and Historical Society
• Free the Slaves
• Martin Luther King Center
• Muhammad Ali Centre
• Musée du quai Branly, Paris
• Nantes History Museum
• New York Historical Society
• Ninsee The National Institute of Dutch slavery history and heritage
• Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Steve Biko Foundation
• The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale
• TransAfrica Forum
• UNESCO Slave Routes Project

UK national

• Commission for Equality and Human Rights
• Department for Culture, Media and Sport
• Embassy of the United States London, UK
• Heritage Lottery Fund - National Museums Liverpool was awarded a £1.5 million grant towards the museum from the Heritage Lottery Fund in September 2006
• Plan UK
• Stop the Traffik
• Wilberforce Institute of Slavery and Emancipation

UK regional

• ACT
• Anthony Walker Foundation
• Community Groups including the Merseyside African Council, Granby Residents' Association, Black Police Association, Kuumba Imani Centre
• Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire
• Liverpool City Council
• Liverpool Hope University
• North West Regional Development Agency
• Rights and Humanity
• The Mersey Partnership
• The Respect Group including members from Liverpool Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service, Merseyside Black History Month Group, Anti Slavery International, Refugee Action
• University of Liverpool

Major funders

Northwest Regional Development Agency
Heritage Lottery Fund	|
Department for Culture, Media and Sport