New Smithsonian Museum Prepared to Deal with Visitors’ Emotions

The same will likely be said for the new Smithsonian, which will tell the story of slavery in a ground-level, personal way, officials said, instead of through numbers, dates and a bird’s-eye view of the past. “One of the goals of the museum is to humanize history, to give it to you on a first-person narrative, to give it to you on a human scale,” Bunch said.