Crowning Glories is a tribute to the beauty, style, and self-expression of black women, and a historical survey of their hat-wearing traditions from the late 1700s to the present. The tradition of African American women adorning themselves with extraordinary headwear goes back generations. Wrapping one’s head with cloth, for example, finds its roots among West [...]
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, [...]
Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum | Baltimore, MD
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
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
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 [...]
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, [...]
