Award-winning Seabrook Village is a unique, African-American cultural museum on the Georgia Coast depicting life & culture from 1865-1930.

As a rural farming community, Seabrook’s residents did everything themselves. A dominant theme at Seabrook, is “Makin’ Do.” With money scarce, the people of the Seabrook Community had to make nearly everything, even the basics, for themselves. The great imagination and artistic skills of the people of Seabrook is now on exhibit throughout the museum. Their ingenuity created unique items such as a peanut roaster made from an old Singer sewing machine or to decorations their homes such as grapevine furniture. Local families have donated most of Seabrook’s artifacts, buildings and land to Seabrook Village. These treasures are complemented by the Willis Hakim Jones African-American Material Culture Collection of extraordinary “Makin’ Do” folk art, the George Ginter Antique Tool Collection, and items from the world-renowned Cyrus Bowens Grave Art permanently gifted to Seabrook by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

Seabrook Village is totally authentic. The interpretation comes from community families whose roots go back over 150 years… from slavery, through the devastation left in the wake of Sherman’s “March to the Sea,” through the first days of freedom and land ownership, and finally, to establishing success. It is a true story of courage, dignity, hope, tenacity, self-determination, and pride, told by those who lived it.