In this paper, the authors explore the Africville museification process and how it became a contested site. Through a critical race theory (CRT) lens, we review the production of Africville as an urban slum (Nelson, 2000) that led to the creation of this memorial museified space and examine how this site is the result of an “apology paradigm” (Green, 2012) configured as a unique and isolated “error” of the “past” that is recognized and re-inscribed in mainstream Canadian history through the museum exhibition. Based on qualitative research, this study uses a narrative analysis approach documented with semi-structured interviews with key museum stakeholders, former residents and descendants from Africville, community leaders and document analysis from the museum exhibition and website. While becoming a meaningful site for anti-Black oppression and social justice, this paper discusses how the Church, which was the beating heart of Africville, is now re-imagined as a contested site reclaiming space, identity and as a tourism site for antiracism struggle.