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JANUARY 2014 — BALTIMORE BEACON
Major black history exhibit visits museum By Lizzy McLellan A nationally renowned exhibit has made its way to Baltimore, where it may bring a surge of visitors to the East Coast’s largest African-American museum.
Curated over 35 years, the Kinsey Collection offers a variety of items that chronicle black history in the United States. The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History &
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JEWS AND THE CIVIL WAR
The Jewish Museum of Maryland, 15 Lloyd St., presents an exhibition examining the role Jewish Americans played in the Civil War. You can also tour the Lloyd Street Synagogue to see what it would have been like to be a member during those times. The exhibit continues through Friday, Feb. 28. Admission is $8 ($6 for seniors 65+). The museum is open Sunday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (410) 732-6400 or visit www.jewishmuseummd.org.
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Through March 28, tickets to the National Aquarium, 501 E. Pratt St., are discounted on Friday evenings to $12, with $5 for an optional 4-D immersion film. For more information, call (410) 5763800 or visit www.aqua.org.
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Culture opened “The Kinsey Collection: Shared Treasures of Bernard & Shirley Kinsey — Where Art & History Intersect” in November, and it will remain at the museum through March 2. Curated by Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, with help from their son, Khalil, this collection offers a variety of items that chronicle black history in the United States. It has been on display in eight museums and has won three national awards, including a President’s Medal. Part of the collection has been on the road since last February, on a tour of three museums — the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, N.C., and now the Lewis museum. The tour came about through a collaboration between the Kinsey family and Wells Fargo, which was seeking a way to
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The exhibit is expected to bring in tens of thousands of visitors during its time in Baltimore, said Helen Yuen, director of marketing for the Lewis Museum. That would be a significant increase in traffic for the museum, which has experienced financial hardship. Its average annual attendance has been about a quarter of what was expected when the institution opened. “Museums are struggling for attendance all over the country,” said Samuel Black, president of the Association of African American Museums. And for a museum that charges admission, like the Lewis, visitors must be compelled not only to visit, but also to pay the fee. “Niche museums like ours face a particular challenge,” said Yuen, so the museum is reaching out past its own geography and cultural expertise.
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celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The Kinsey Collection includes paintings, sculptures, documents and artifacts. Some of the items come straight from the hands of historical figures — letters written by Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, decisions from Dred Scott v. Sandford and Brown v. Board of Education and, as a centerpiece of sorts, an early copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.
building was subsequently occupied by two Catholic and two Jewish congregations until 1963 when it was abandoned. The Jewish Museum of Maryland purchased and restored the building. The basement contains a traditional matzoh oven and a ritual bath.
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back to 1870. The exhibit also shows
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