Saturday, September 4, 2010

Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum | Baltimore, MD

October 21, 2009 by lindsey  
Filed under Baltimore, Museums

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 [...]

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Banneker-Douglass Museum | Annapolis, MD

October 20, 2009 by lindsey  
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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 [...]

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James E. Lewis Museum of Art | Baltimore, MD

October 19, 2009 by lindsey  
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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 [...]

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Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards | Baltimore, MD

October 17, 2009 by lindsey  
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Photo Credit: . © by James G. Howes, 2008. Adjacent to the main gate of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, 22,000-square-foot Sports Legends Museum is housed in the former Camden Station, originally constructed in 1857 by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) as its main passenger station in Baltimore. After being vacant since the 1980s, [...]

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Stax Museum of American Soul Music | Memphis, TN

March 5, 2009 by lindsey  
Filed under Memphis, Visual & Performing Arts

If you are a soul music lover, make sure you get to Soulsville, USA, aka Stax Museum of American Soul Music when you visit Memphis. Built almost to the exact specifications of the original Stax recording studio, housed in the former Capitol Theatre, the Stax Museum features hundreds if not thousands of videos, films, photographs, original instruments [...]

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