Apex Museum
The Apex Museum is full of artifacts, photographs, children's shows, presentations and more – all related to African-American culture, both past and present. 404-523-2739.
Auburn Avenue Research Library
The Auburn Avenue Research Library is the perfect resource for students or anybody looking to learn more about African American history and the city of Atlanta. 404-730-4001.
Clark Atlanta University Collection of African American Art
The permanent home of the University's historical collection of African American Art and the illustrious "Art of the Negro" murals by Hale Woodruff. 404-880-6102.
Hammonds House
Georgia's only museum dedicated to African-American fine art. Located in Historic West End in a Victorian house restored by the late Dr. Otis T. Hammonds, a noted physician and art patron. 404-752-8730.
Michael C. Carlos Museum
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets art and artifacts from antiquity to the present.
Wren's Nest House Museum
The Wren's Nest is the preserved home of Joel Chandler Harris, the 19th century Atlanta journalist who penned the Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus tales. 404-753-7735.
Museum of African American History
The Museum of African American History highlights the role of African Americans in New England. It covers their achievements from the colonial period to the 19th century.
Apex Museum
The Apex Museum is full of artifacts, photographs, children's shows, presentations and more – all related to African-American culture, both past and present. 404-523-2739.
Auburn Avenue Research Library
The Auburn Avenue Research Library is the perfect resource for students or anybody looking to learn more about African American history and the city of Atlanta. 404-730-4001.
Clark Atlanta University Collection of African American Art
The permanent home of the University's historical collection of African American Art and the illustrious "Art of the Negro" murals by Hale Woodruff. 404-880-6102.
Hammonds House
Georgia's only museum dedicated to African-American fine art. Located in Historic West End in a Victorian house restored by the late Dr. Otis T. Hammonds, a noted physician and art patron. 404-752-8730.
Historic Roswell's A Southern Trilogy
Roswell’s Southern Trilogy of historic antebellum homes; Barrington Hall, Bulloch Hall and Smith Plantation each have a unique and authentic story.
Michael C. Carlos Museum
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University collects, preserves, exhibits, and interprets art and artifacts from antiquity to the present.
Tubman African American Museum
Georgia's largest African American museum offers fourteen exhibition galleries, a resource center and magnificent 63-foot mural depicting African-American art, history and culture. 478-743-8544.
Wren's Nest House Museum
The Wren's Nest is the preserved home of Joel Chandler Harris, the 19th century Atlanta journalist who penned the Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus tales. 404-753-7735.
L.C.Bates Museum of Natural History and Culture
The L.C. Bates Museum houses unique natural history and culture collections. The building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. 207-238-4250.
Museum of African Culture
The Museum of African Culture is the only New England museum devoted to Sub-Saharan African Art and Culture. Tel: 207-871-7188
Sandy Spring Slave Museum
Focus on the heritage of Blacks from their origin in Africa through the Trans-Atlantic passage, participation with the Underground Railroad, the struggle for civil rights, and their accomplishments across the African Diaspora.
Museum of African American History
The Museum of African American History highlights the role of African Americans in New England. It covers their achievements from the colonial period to the 19th century.
Greater Newark Conservancy Prudential Outdoor Learning Center
The Conservancy’s Prudential Outdoor Learning Center is the ideal place to learn about the natural world.
The Newark Museum
The Museum complex, the largest in New Jersey, with 80 galleries of art and science, a mini zoo, planetarium, sculpture garden, schoolhouse and the Ballantine House, the restored 1885 mansion that is a National Historic Landmark.
Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, Newark, NJ. (973-596-6550)
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Over 700 twentieth-century and contemporary works in all media by artists of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry. The Museum has a commitment to increasing audience participation in the visual arts through its Permanent Collection, exhibitions, and educational programs.
Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NYC. (718-681-6000) HOURS: Thurs, Sat, Sun. 11:00 am - 6:00 pm, Fridays 11:00 am - 8:00 pm.
Brooklyn Museum
Discover the world through art at one of the premier art institutions in the world, with Interactive activites and guided tours for groups. OPEN Wed-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat. & Sun. 11am-6pm. Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NYC. (718-501-6221).
Green Meadows Farm
Green Meadows Farm offers a guided tour of over 300 farm animals in spring and fall and everyone takes a hayride. Special multicultural festivals. Tel: 718-470-0224. REGION: NYC.
Harlem Meer Performance Festival
Sundays, June 20 through September 5, 2010
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm FREE The Central Park Conservancy's Harlem Meer Performance Festival features the best in local established and emerging artists in the genres of Jazz, Latin, Gospel and World music. Performances take place at:
The Charles A. Dana Discovery Center In Central Park at 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues. NYC. (212-860-1370)
Joyce Gold History Tours of New York
The New York Times has called Ms. Gold “the doyenne of city tour guides.” Popular tours include Colonial Wall Street, Harlem, Chinatown / Little Italy, Hell’s Kitchen, Ellis Island, Gangs of New York—The Bloody Five Points, Jewish Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, Women of Washington Square, Macabre Greenwich Village, Soho and Times Square.
Louis Armstrong House
Now designated as a national historic landmark and a New York City landmark and open to the public with Guided 40-minute tours of the House where LOUIS ARMSTRONG lived - starts every hour, on the hour.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than three million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present with family Programs, gallery tours, hands-on projects * always something new! Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 81st St., NYC. (212-288-7733) Family Guides available at the Information Desks.
Puss in Boots
Puss, a charismatic kitty with cunning wit and irresistible Latin charm, promises a poor miller everlasting love and fortune. All the cat needs to pull off his trick are a hat, a cape and a purr-fect pair of boots!
October 2-10, 2010 * Thu, Fri at 7:00pm. Sat at 2:00pm & 7:00pm. Sun at 12:00pm & 5:00pm [Tickets: $12.50 - $35.00]
New Victory on 42nd Street, 209 West 42nd Street, NYC, (646-223-3010)
Studio Museum in Harlem
A fine arts museum whose exhibits are dedicated to the arts of Black Americans & the African Diaspora. Special family gallery interactive tours. Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 W. 125th St., NYC. ( 212-864-4500). Wednesday to Friday 12-6pm. Saturday 10am-6pm. Sunday 12-6pm.
The Shadow Box Theatre
Award-winning musical theatre company using shadow, 3D puppets and live performers. Come to our theatres (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan,Queens). Tel: 212-724-0677.
Weeksville Heritage Center
The Hunterfly Road Houses are examples of the homes of 19th century free African Americans in the urban North. Named for James Weeks, who purchased the land in 1838, Weeksville was originally settled by African Americans following slavery’s end in New York State in 1827. 718 756 5250
Freedom Crossing: The Underground Railroad
The dramatic and heart-rending stories of the people who risked their lives for freedom, as well as the lasting heritage of their ancestors, can now be experienced at Freedom Crossing, the new Regional Underground Railroad Interpretive Center. 716-286-8200.
International Mask & Puppet Museum
Open Hand Theater is a performance center and museum celebrating the human experience through mask and puppet traditions from around the world.
Joyce Gold History Tours of New York
The New York Times has called Ms. Gold “the doyenne of city tour guides.” Popular tours include Colonial Wall Street, Harlem, Chinatown / Little Italy, Hell’s Kitchen, Ellis Island, Gangs of New York—The Bloody Five Points, Jewish Lower East Side, Greenwich Village, Women of Washington Square, Macabre Greenwich Village, Soho and Times Square.
The Shadow Box Theatre
Award-winning musical theatre company using shadow, 3D puppets and live performers. Come to our theatres (Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan,Queens). Tel: 212-724-0677.
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA
Enjoy a face-to-face encounter with the bold and fearless people who helped form our nation with "Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876, presented by PECO" at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
LIVING THE EXPERIENCE
“Living The Experience”® Underground Railroad Reenactment a National Park Service Network to Freedom program and original Lancaster PA Underground Railroad site. Contact: Phoebe Bailey 1.800.510.5899 x113
AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM IN PHILADELPHIA
Enjoy a face-to-face encounter with the bold and fearless people who helped form our nation with "Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776-1876, presented by PECO" at the African American Museum in Philadelphia.
Museum of Black WWII History
The Museum of Black WWII History seeks to educate the public on the heroic role of 1.1 million African Americans who served in World War II. Tel: 802-823-5519
