Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum

Teaching museum in Atlanta, Georgia

Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum is an Afrocentric teaching museum in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. It was founded in 1992. The museum offers visitors a "hands-on" African American experience by seeing, hearing, saying, touching and doing. The museum's stated goals is to "rectify, reclaim and restore the contributions of Black people throughout history, which have been denied, ignored and omitted."[1][2] Murals line the garden walls of the museum, picturing Afrocentric subjects.

References

  1. ^ "Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum's Rebirth of the Vision Juneteenth Festival and Gala", Black Art in America[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Creative Loafing
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