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The 82,000 square foot museum is located two blocks from Baltimore's Inner Harbor at 830 E. Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in 2005, [1] the museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and was named after Reginald F. Lewis, the first African American to build a billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International Holdings ...
An exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Museums not only collect and preserve historic and cultural material, their basic purpose is educational or aesthetic. The first African American museum was the College Museum in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1868. [2] Prior to 1950, there were about 30 museums ...
American Dime Museum - museum of curiosities, closed in 2006 [8] [9] Antique Toy Museum, Baltimore - closed in 2012 [10] [11] B. Olive Cole Pharmacy Museum - was located in the Kelly building at the Maryland Pharmacists Association [12] Baltimore City Life Museums - consortium of historic homes, building and sites (folded 1997)
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a wax museum in Baltimore, Maryland featuring prominent African-American and other black historical figures. It was established in 1983, in a downtown storefront on Saratoga Street. [1]
Chin told the committee proposed plans for a Florida museum are consistent with African American museums in Baltimore, Detroit and Charleston, South Carolina. Now, planners will conduct a ...
African American Heritage House: La Plata: Charles: Southern: African American: Slavery and African American culture in 19th–20th-century Charles County, open by appointment [1] African American Schoolhouse Museum: Worton: Kent: Eastern Shore: School: Open by appointment [2] African Art Museum of Maryland: Columbia: Howard: Central: Art
The collection was moved to a new building as the Baltimore Museum and Gallery of Fine Arts. The original building later served as Baltimore's City Hall from 1830 to 1875 and from 1878 to 1887 as one of the first grammar schools and the first high school for African-American students in Baltimore.
On March 9, 2013—the 100th anniversary of Tubman's death—the State of Maryland and the National Park Service broke ground for a new protected area within the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. This 17-acre (69,000 m 2 ) state-owned site lay entirely within the refuge's boundaries on Maryland Route 335 .