Top Black History Month Museums & Cultural Centers
Whether it’s the MLK National Historic Site, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum or the National Museum of African Art, some of America’s top black history museums and cultural centers have become destinations in themselves. We compiled this list based on the popularity of the museums and the noteworthy artifacts that they have in their possessions.
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Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts | Eatonville, FL
“She had been getting ready for her great journey to the horizons in search of people; it was important to all the world that she should find them and they find her.”
Zora Neale Hurston,
Their Eyes Were Watching God, chapter 9.
Named in honor of one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature, the Zora Neale [...]
Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum | Baltimore, MD
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The Banneker Historical Park & Museum, established on the very land purchased by Robert and Mary Banneker in 1734, serves as an educational institution to preserve the history of Benjamin Banneker, as well as the cultural and natural history of early American times. The Museum offers an array of special events in history, visual and [...]
Banneker-Douglass Museum | Annapolis, MD
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Housed in the former the former Mt. Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church built by free blacks in 1874, the Banneker-Douglass Museum is dedicated to preserving Maryland’s African American heritage and serves as the state’s official repository of African American material culture. It was named for Benjamin Banneker, the Maryland-born mathematician who helped survey and lay [...]
James E. Lewis Museum of Art | Baltimore, MD
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Carved by Nigerian artist Lamidi Fakeye from the hard wood of the Iroko tree, these doors grace the
entrance of Morgan State University’s fine art museum.
Established in 1951 and renamed in 1990 after its founder, the James E. Lewis Museum of Art (JELMA) brings to life the vision of this artist and former Morgan State professor. [...]
