Exposeum™ is a trademark submitted by Hermon Johnson Jr. in connection with museum services focused on exposing and sharing Black history.
Exposeum
Mound Bayou Museum
The First Exposeum
“We as Black people are really just now discovering our history. The whole point of this is that instead of us just knowing it and putting it in a museum — which is what museums usually do — we are exposing our history. That’s why I call it an Exposeum. It’s a process, not just a place.”
The Meaning
What is an Exposeum?
The Mound Bayou Museum is proud to be the first Exposeum: a new kind of museum created to uncover the parts of Black history that have been buried or withheld from the people whose lives and communities shaped it.
Hermon Johnson Jr. created the word Exposeum by joining expose with museum. An Exposeum actively searches for history, shares it with the public, and ensures that Black communities can see their own truth represented with care and clarity.
Expose
to uncover
Museum
to preserve
Exposeum
history brought into view