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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 ...
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
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 ]
Plans to bring Florida Black History museum to Palm Beach County. Just two weeks after the school board approved its budget on Sept. 6, the statewide task force on a Florida Museum of Black ...
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The Maryland Park Service and the National Park Service jointly provided funding to construct the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center. On the same date, the State of Maryland unveiled the 125-mile (201 km) Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Scenic Byway , a route along an existing system of county, state, and federal roads which ...