Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards | Baltimore, MD
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, the [...]
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 [...]
Black Archives of Mid America, Kansas City, MO
March 29, 2008 by lindsey
Filed under Kansas City
View of the Rose Room at the Street Hotel, Kansas City, MO
Often considered as a potential rival to the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City, the Black Archives of Mid America boasts one of the largest collections of African-American art, [...]
National Museum of African Art | Washington D.C.
January 9, 2008 by lindsey
Filed under Museums, Washington DC
“African art embodies one of humanity’s greatest achievements–fusing visual imagery with spiritual beliefs and social purpose. Its technical achievements and artistic perfection bear witness to the creative ingenuity of its makers. Religious beliefs and cultural ideals find artistic expression not only in masks and figures created primarily for ceremonial purposes, but also in the utilitarian [...]
Anacostia Community Museum | Washington D.C.
March 10, 2007 by lindsey
Filed under Museums, Washington DC
The Anacostia Museum, officially named the Anacostia Community Museum, is the Smithsonian Institution’s museum of African American history and culture, primarily devoted to the identification, documentation and preservation of the African American experience in the Upper South (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Washington, D.C.), as well as nationwide. The museum is located [...]
