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John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture: Tallahassee: Florida: 1996 [89] Josephine School Community Museum: Berryville: Virginia: 2003 [90] Kansas African-American Museum Wichita: Kansas: 1997 [91] L.E. Coleman African-American Museum Halifax County, Virginia: Virginia: 2005 [92] LaVilla Museum: Jacksonville: Florida ...
The LaVilla Museum is a museum of African American history and culture located in the 1929 Ritz Theater in Jacksonville, Florida.The museum opened in 1999. [1]The museum documents the culture and history of people of African descent (most slaves, some free, and not all Americans) in northeast Florida prior to that territory's entry as a U.S. state in 1845, as well as LaVilla neighborhood of ...
The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital. Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes. It was the first institution ...
Contemporary, southeastern Florida and Caribbean art Museum of Arts and Sciences: Daytona Beach: Volusia Central East Multiple Also called MOAS, includes art, science, Americana, historic house museums, a children's museum, Cuban Museum gallery Museum of Contemporary Art: North Miami: Miami-Dade Southeast Art Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville
We know that African masks inspired Picasso, that African sculpture inspired Brancusi, that African people inspired a whole slew of Western designers, artists, musicians, writers and so on.
MOCA Jacksonville was founded in 1924 as the Jacksonville Fine Arts Society, [2] the first organization in the Jacksonville community devoted to the visual arts. In 1948 the museum was incorporated as the Jacksonville Art Museum, and in 1978 it became the first institution in Jacksonville to be accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.
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What: Savannah Black Heritage Festival & Savannah African Art Museum When: Lunch-and-Learn at 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Hometown Treasures Expo at 1 to 3 p.m., Feb. 19.