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The Griot Museum of Black History is a wax museum in St. Louis, Missouri, founded in 1997. Originally named The Black World History Wax Museum, the organization changed its name to The Griot Museum of Black History (“The Griot”) in 2009. In some west African countries, the griot, is a historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.
Senegalese Wolof griot, 1890 A Hausa Griot performs at Diffa, Niger, playing a komsa ().. A griot (/ ˈ ɡ r iː oʊ /; French:; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋ߬ߟߌ, [1] djeli or djéli in French spelling); also spelt Djali; Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof: gewel) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician.
Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum. Coordinates: 33.7459°N 84.4246°W. Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum is an Afrocentric teaching museum in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. It was founded in 1992. The museum offers visitors a "hands-on" African American experience by seeing, hearing, saying, touching and doing. The museum ...
Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. Benton Park. Art. Community arts center. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. St. Louis. Art. Part of Washington University in St. Louis, collections include 19th, 20th, and 21st-century European and American paintings, sculptures, prints, installations, and photographs. Henry Miller Museum.
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]
It is now a virtual museum. The new ABHM, which was scheduled to open fall 2019, is located on the ground floor of the newly built Griot building at 401 W. North Ave., Milwaukee. America's Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) is dedicated to the history of the Black Holocaust in America. The museum was founded in 1988 by James Cameron, who became well ...
International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum. Laumeier Sculpture Park. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center. May Gallery of Webster University [4] Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum. Museum of Contemporary Religious Art. National Blues Museum. American Kennel Club 's Museum of the Dog [5] Pulitzer Arts Foundation.
The Breman Museum. Midtown Atlanta. Jewish. Jewish history, with special emphasis on Georgia and the Holocaust. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center. Druid Hills. Art. Community arts center, gallery hosts one-person and occasional group exhibitions by emerging local artists in varied media. Center for Puppetry Arts.