The Krannert Art Museum galleries contained two permanent galleries that were merged by the design and overlay of a third, a rotated room that organizes four curatorial sections around it. The third rotated gallery introduces a new axes, giving a new flow to the space. It also allows for the organization of the 5 curatorial sections of the exhibtion: Architecture of the Port, Between Land and Sea: Objects in Motion, In the Presence of Words, Ocean of Adornment, and Trading the Gaze: East African Coast Photography. A series of cantilevered pedestals were designed to showcase over 200 artworks. 26 cases were designed to moderate humidity and maintain the quality of the artworks. The exhibition ran through March 24, 2018 at Krannert Art Museum and will travel to the new National Museum of African Art/Smithsonian Institution is Washington DC and The Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles CA.