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The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright) is a museum of African-American history and culture, located in Detroit, Michigan.Located in the city's Midtown Cultural Center, The Wright is one of the world's oldest and largest independent African-American museums, holding the world's largest permanent collection of African-American culture. [1]
A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1882–2000. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2841-5. Abt, Jeffrey (2017). Valuing Detroit's Art Museum: A History of Financial Abandonment and Rescue. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-3-319-45218-0.
Museum owner Olayami Dabls, 74, smiles for a photograph outside of the MBAD African Bead Museum in Detroit on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. "The goal was to have a bead museum where African children ...
The Michigan House of Representatives on Thursday passed legislation that would allow both the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and the Detroit Historical Society to ask voters ...
Detroit Institute of Arts. This list of museums in Michigan encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The first independent, nonprofit African American museums in the United States were The African American Museum in Cleveland, Ohio (founded in 1956), the DuSable Museum of African American History in Chicago, Illinois (founded in 1960), and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan (founded in 1965
Directors of the National Museum of African Art (7 P) Pages in category "African art museums in the United States" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, the Michigan Science Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit are also located in the Art Center area. Substantial residential areas, including the East Ferry Avenue Historic District and late-19th century homes to the east of the Detroit Institute of Art. These neighborhoods ...