After years of planning and rebuilding, leaders of America’s Black Holocaust Museum (ABHM) will announce a Grand Re-Opening date and reemergence in the community at a news conference on Tuesday, September 28th, at 10am in the museum’s community room at 401 W. North Avenue in Milwaukee. Dr. Robert “Bert” Davis, President and CEO of ABHM, will make the announcement.
ABHM was founded in 1988 by Dr. James Cameron, who survived a lynching as a teenager in 1930. He dedicated his entire life to helping people realize liberty and justice for all. Thousands of visitors from across the country and around the world visited the museum for the 20 years that it was open. Dr. Cameron’s unfortunate passing in 2006 and the subsequent recession in 2008 led to the museum’s closing. It reopened virtually in 2012 and serves as an educational tool for students, educators and the community. The virtual museum is visited by thousands of people from all walks of life, cultures and backgrounds from over 200 countries across the world.
The physical museum will re-open at the corner of Vel R. Phillips and North Avenue in a brand-new facility with inspiring new exhibits. As part of a redevelopment project involving multiple partners that includes affordable housing and community gathering spaces, the physical museum serves as a national model for how public history, arts, culture, and commerce can work in unison to spur economic growth and cultural vitality.
The new galleries will take visitors on a chronological journey through the over 400 years of history of African Americans from pre-captivity to the present, uniquely displaying the under-told stories as an integral part of American history. America’s Black Holocaust Museum, an integrated physical and virtual experience, will continue to serve as a catalyst to educate and create space for critical conversation, reconciliation and healing, in order to promote a more equitable world without racism.
For more information on the ABHM, go to https://www.abhmuseum.org.