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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]
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
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Greenfield Village, the outdoor living history museum section of the Henry Ford complex, was (along with the adjacent Henry Ford Museum) dedicated in 1929 and opened to the public in June 1933. [29] It was the first outdoor museum of its type in the nation, and served as a model for subsequent outdoor museums. [ 7 ]
DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, in Chicago, Illinois; African American Museum in Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; African Meeting House, in Boston, Massachusetts; Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, in Detroit, Michigan
Jul. 1—ASHLAND — The C.B. Nuckolls Community Center and Black History Museum received a $50,000 donation from an out-of-state anonymous donor, Darrell Smith and Bernice Henry announced on ...
Bob Fernandez, left, was first in line in 2009 to buy six seats for the Bob Dylan concert at Canton Memorial Civic Center. Fernandez, of Green, arrived at 7:30 am to grab his place, followed by 30 ...