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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.
It was leased to the Maryland Commission on African-American History and Culture (MCAAHC), becoming the state's official museum for African American history and culture in 1984. In 1984, a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story addition was added to the rear of the building when it opened as the Banneker-Douglass Museum.
Black American West Museum and Heritage Center: Denver: Colorado: 1971 [40] Black Cowboy Museum Rosenberg: Texas: 2017 [41] Black History 101 Mobile Museum Detroit: Michigan: 1995 [42] Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia: Richmond: Virginia: 1981 [43] Blanchard House Museum: Punta Gorda: Florida: 2004 [44] Bontemps African ...
The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., is a national museum exclusively dedicated to documenting the life, history and culture of African American citizens.
23-acre (93,000 m 2) park with William Brown House, a historic house museum, ongoing archaeological digs of the late-17th- and early-18th-century Londontowne, 8 acres (32,000 m 2) of botanical gardens
Just two weeks after the school board approved its budget on Sept. 6, the statewide task force on a Florida Museum of Black History began to meet to make plans for a museum and look for a place to ...
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 ]
The family-friendly event will include live gospel music, plays, food, interactive games for kids, and guided tours of the grounds.