Banneker-Douglass Museum
The Banneker-Douglass Museum opened in the historic Mt. Moriah A.M.E. Church in February 1984 as the state repository for African American history and culture. The recently completed Banneker-Douglass Museum addition is a four-story addition (one underground story) which uses the nineteenth-century brick of the church’s north façade as its interior lobby wall. In addition to a more spacious lobby, the first floor now houses a small gallery for changing exhibits. A light oak staircase rises from the first floor lobby to the second floor, allowing visitors an unobstructed view of the former church’s stained glass windows. The entire second floor will house the museum’s first-ever permanent exhibit, Deep Roots, Rising Waters: A History of African Americans in Maryland, an overview of African-American history in Maryland from 1633 to late in the Civil Rights Movement. The Banneker-Douglass Museum addition has doubled the museum’s exhibition space and freed up space for performances, events, and site rentals.
