Posts Tagged ‘museums’
Meet Zach Van Harris Jr., the South Dakota Historian Unearthing the State’s African American History
by Jonathan Kelley and Lydia Moran, ArtsMidwest Zach Van Harris Jr. is a fountain of names. They come running out of him in a steady current. There’s Oscar Micheaux, the versatile, resilient filmmaker whose early 20th century films countered prevailing narratives about Black life. There’s York, an enslaved man who joined Lewis and Clark on their expedition and helped build…
Read More‘There are children here who do not want to be black’: one woman’s bid to save Mexico’s first Afro-Mexican museum
A museum dedicated to Afro-Mexican history faces closure if the single unpaid volunteer cannot find someone to follow in her footsteps.
Read MoreLiverpool museum appeals for information on subject of The Black Boy
A museum in England is appealing to the public for information of a portrait by painter William Lindsay Windus featuring a Black boy.
Read MoreU.S. museum returns artifacts to Ghana that were looted 150 years ago by British forces
A museum at UCLA is the latest to return artifacts stolen from Africa to their rightful owners, this time to Ghana.
Read MoreOn The Issues: Museum and Arts Funding in WI
Milwaukee Museum Days kicks off by discussing the opportunities available in our area. Please join the The Lubar Center on January 19 for “On the Issues: Museum and Arts Funding in Wisconsin.”
Read MoreMilwaukee Museum Days Return for 2024
The America’s Black Holocaust Museum is excited to join in the celebration of the 2024 Milwaukee Museum Days, taking place from January 18 to 28, 2024.
Read MoreMilwaukee Museum Days, $5 Admission
The America’s Black Holocaust Museum is excited to join in the celebration of the 2024 Milwaukee Museum Days, taking place from January 18 to 28, 2024.
Read MoreTenement Museum to Feature a Black Family’s Apartment for the First Time
A museum that depicts immigrant experiences in New York City now includes an exhibit about tenement living.
Read More‘Southern/Modern’: Rediscovering the Radical Art Below the Mason-Dixon Line
An art exhibit in an Atlanta Museum brings together works by Southern artists from the mid-1900s to examine changing styles.
Read MoreIt’s Time To Talk About Museums’ Unethical Collection Of Indigenous And Black Human Remains
Sean Decatur, the first Black president of the American Museum of Natural History, is pulling from its collection artifacts that were stolen from Black and Indigenous remains in a significant move towards decolonization.
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