El Archivo Vivo.

Archivo Negro, a project of Movimiento Ananse and Revista Etnica, keeps a growing digital archive of Puerto Rico's Black history at archivonegro.org, the platform we built for them in 2023: family photographs, documents, portraits of cultural figures, the bomba and plena tradition. The collection lived as images on that website. Powerful, but flat, and physical exhibitions end.

The stories attached to each photograph, written with care in Spanish, deserved a place people could inhabit rather than scroll past. The team wanted presence: rooms, light, the feeling of standing in front of a work. And it had to run on a phone in a classroom as well as on a gallery projector, without gatekeepers like Google Arts and Culture deciding who gets in.

We started from the archive itself: a pipeline that reads every gallery, image, story and document from archivonegro.org into a structured database, so the museum is always an expression of the real collection, never a copy that drifts. Then we built the experience around presence: rooms, spotlights, benches, ambience, and three ways to see time. The client's editorial voice leads; the engine serves it.