2010.04.08 Top 21 Black Museums in America

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Top 21 Black Museums in America

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SoulOfAmerica.coms list lists museums that reveal and interpret how black people have lived,worked, created, struggled, overcome and celebrated through the ages.

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The venues hold rare treasures such as a replica of Martin Luther King, Jr.s Birmingham jail cell,photographer James Van Der Zees portraits of Harlem residents in the 1930s and 40s and baseballsautographed by Negro Baseball Leaguers like Josh Gibson. Black museums are also the caretakers ofour legacies, as illustrated by the August Wilson Center for African American Cultures production ofnew dance, music and theater works, the Harvey Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture

bringing the remarkable Hewitt Collection home and the National Underground Centerscontinued efforts to abolish present-day slavery around the world.

Announcement of the list coincides with two major museums opening recently and nearly all theinstitutions expanding collections and gallery space. According to SoulOfAmerica.com Founder andPublisher Thomas Dorsey, Now is a perfect opportunity to explore black museums as they lead ournext cultural renaissance happening nationwide not just in Harlem.

SoulOfAmerica.coms Top 21 African-American Museums listed in alphabetical order are:

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1. African Burial Ground Museum & Monument2. African-American Museum of Dallas3. African-American Museum ofPhiladelphia4. American Jazz Museum & Negro Leagues Baseball Museum5. August Wilson Center for African-American Culture6. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute7. Boston Museum of African-American History

8. California African American Museum9. Charles Wright Museum of African-American History10. Du Sable Museum of African-American History11. Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Museum of Dallas12. Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts & Culture13. Muhammad Ali Center14. Museum of the African Diaspora15. National Buffalo Soldiers Museum16. National Civil Rights Museum17. National Great Blacks in Wax Museum18. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center

19. Reginald Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture20. Stax Museum of American Soul21. Studio Museum in Harlem

SoulOfAmerica.com chose museums that ranked high in at least two of the following categories:

Best Inclusion of a Major Historical Site

Best Historical Artifacts Collection

Best Art Collection

Best Architecture

Best-Looking Galleries

Best Museum Honoring a Person

Uniqueness of Artifacts or Concepts

Founded in1997, SoulOfAmerica.com is the only comprehensive, most quoted and highest-trafficBlackTravel . Over 500,000 BlackWebAwards.com voters named SoulfOfAmerica.com BestSite for Travel Information for 2007, 2008 and 2009.

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[...] Arts & Culture bringing the remarkable Hewitt Collection home and theNational Underground Railroad Centers continued efforts to abolish present-day slaveryaround the [...]

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I hope that Soul of America will consider some southern museums the next time they do theirsurvey. The Hammonds House Museum and Galleries is exceptional and has a long standinghistory in the Atlanta community. Their collection includes some of the worlds top artists.http://www.hammondshouse.org/ There is also the Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia andmany others.

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