EVERY SUNDAY UNTIL JUNE l6th

OPEN SUNDAYS AT 1PM for hourly tours

 IN SEARCH OF THE COLORED GIRL

Group Tours are available Tuesday through Saturday by appointment only for groups of ten or more. Please contact us through our website for more information.

“In Search of The Colored Girl”” is The Colored Girls’ Museum fourth exhibition since it opened in March 2015.   This show WILL BE OPEN UNTIL June l6th..

The Colored Girls Museum is the first and only institution of its kind to document and celebrate the ordinary, extraordinary colored girl . The current campaign and exhibition considers movements like #Metoo, #Muterkelly, the adultification of black girls and the erasure of contributions of black women and girls from important movements and history. We also consider the nearly 75,000 black girls and women missing across the country.

“In a docent led tour of the exhibit”patrons will become the “search party.” The museum an excavation site and visual travelogue. Visitors must search for the colored girl she has gone missing. They can search for her in her kitchen, a bedroom perhaps they will find her in a photo album or favorite book. Maybe she is hidden in a closet or an old laundry basket . Is she in an action hero collection her music or favorite scent. Is she a chair covered in hair?

Each installation, work of art or artifact is evidence that she does exist, no matter how much she is excluded or overlooked. Who is she? Where was she seen last? Who did she talk to? What was she wearing? When was she reported missing, or was she? Did she have a best friend, a favorite book or place to visit? What are the consequences of our silence around her disappearance?