Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center

More like a performing arts center than a museum, the Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center primarily focuses on the local arts and cultural scene, featuring live jazz performances, recitals and music instruction. Exhibits feature photos and other memorabilia of Eubie Blake and other famous Baltimorean’s Billie Holiday and Cab Calloway.
Address: 847 North [...]

The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, Baltimore MD

 
Take a walk through history at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum, the nation’s first and only museum of its kind commemorating some of the high and low points of the African American experience. The honorees run the gamut from history’s movers and shakers: Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Jackie Robinson, Martin [...]

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture, Baltimore MD

Named after the famed African American entreprenuer and philanthropist Reginald Lewis, the Reginald F. Lewis of Maryland African American History & Culture is dedicated preserving history and traditions of Maryland’s African-American community. With over 80,000 square feet of public and exhibition space, the museum is the largest African American museum on the East Coast, and [...]

Baltimore Civil War Museum, Baltimore MD

The Baltimore Civil War Museum is located inside the President Street Station, a train station that played an important role in the Civil War.  The small museum offers visitors a wealth of information on Baltimore during the Civil War and the role of the rail station in the era, especially the building’s role in the [...]

Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum, Baltimore MD

The 142-acre Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum chronicles the life of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), a renown self-educated African American mathemetician, astronomer and inventor, dubbed “the first African American man of science” by historians. In 1791, Banneker joined

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