NOMOAR™, the National Ongoing Museum of American Racism, is a living public archive of racism across American history, from the nation's founding in 1776 to the present day. It documents the events, policies, places, and people that shaped that history, and it is built to keep growing for as long as the record demands.
This is a public tool, not a finished exhibit. Anyone can create an account and contribute by submitting event cards, each tied to a date and a place. Over time, those submissions build a searchable timeline and an interactive map of where and how racism has operated across the country. Every entry is reviewed and approved by NOMOAR™ admins before it is published, so the archive stays accurate and accountable as it expands. The goal is a record that is open to everyone, built by many hands, and impossible to quietly erase.
We built NOMOAR™ because so much of this history is under threat. Markers, exhibits, and educational materials are being removed from national parks, museums, and federal sites, and a great deal of this history was never taught in modern American classrooms to begin with. But history does not end because a sign comes down. The events still happened. The places still stand. The record can always be rebuilt, and it can always be added to.
The archive is the foundation, not the whole project. We want NOMOAR™ to become a source for real educational material: lesson-ready resources, curated collections, and reference tools that teachers, students, organizers, and researchers can actually use. As the archive grows, so does its value as a teaching resource that exists outside the institutions currently stripping this history away.
We also want to bring NOMOAR™ off the screen and into the streets. Our hope is to develop live installations and pop-up exhibits hosted in cities across the country, turning the digital archive into something people can walk through, stand in front of, and experience together. An online record reaches people everywhere. A physical installation in a community makes the history impossible to look away from. We want to do both.
NOMOAR™ is built and sustained by the people who use it. It is free to read and free to contribute to, and we intend to keep it that way. Keeping the archive open, moderating submissions, building the educational tools, and funding live installations all take real resources.
If this work matters to you, you can help keep it going. Every contribution supports the people and infrastructure that keep NOMOAR™ free, accurate, and growing.
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NOMOAR™ respects user privacy. We collect only the information necessary for platform functionality — such as account details for contributors and email addresses for optional subscriptions — and we do not sell user data. For questions about data use or removal requests, contact us.
