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{{toplink|url=http://www.thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com|name=coloredgirlsmuseum.com}}[[File:TheColoredGirlsMuseum.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Inside the Colored Girls Museum.]]'''The Colored Girls Museum''' (TCGM) is a memoir museum founded by Vashti DuBois that '''honors the stories, experiences and history of ordinary Colored Girls'''. The first of its kind, the museum initiates the object—submitted by the Colored Girl herself—as a representative of an aspect of her story and personal history which she finds meaningful. These objects embody her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl.
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TCGM  distinguishes itself by exclusively collecting, preserving, honoring and decoding artifacts pertaining to the experience and herstory of Colored Girls. This museum is equal parts research facility, exhibition space, gathering place and think tank. TCGM was founded in 2015 and is located in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes.
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This start-up museum enterprise has been written about in the Smithsonian Magazine, Essence, Associated Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel Noire, Metro U.K., and others.
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''Note:''  The above descriptive information came from the museum's [https://thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com/history History] page.
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==In The News==
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*[https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-colored-girls-museum-zoning-decision-germantown/ 'I want her to be wanted': Zoning decision could jeopardize Philly's Colored Girls Museum], WHYY, November 13, 2023.
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*[http://hiddencityphila.org/2021/02/the-ordinary-extraordinary-making-history-tangible-at-the-colored-girls-museum/ The Ordinary Extraordinary: Making History Tangible at the Colored Girls Museum], Hidden City Philadelphia, February 18, 2021.
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*[http://kywnewsradio.radio.com/articles/news/2-black-museums-seek-help-from-community-to-safely-reopen Two Black museums seek help from Philly community to safely reopen amid virus], KYW, June 29, 2020.
  
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{{toplink|url=http://www.thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com|name=coloredgirlsmuseum.com}}'''The Colored Girls Museum''' gives the following descriptive information:<blockquote>The Colored Girls Museum is a memoir museum, which honors the stories, experiences, and history of Colored Girls. This museum initiates the "ordinary" object—submitted by the colored girl herself, as representative of an aspect of her story and personal history, which she finds meaningful; her object embodies her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl. The Colored Girls Museum is headquartered in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes.<br><br>''Mission and Vision''<br><br>The Colored Girls Museum distinguishes herself by exclusively collecting, preserving, honoring, and decoding artifacts pertaining to the experience and herstory of colored girls. This museum shall serve as a clearinghouse of multidimensional arty-facts, objects and information about Colored Girls: equal parts research facility, exhibition space, gathering place and think tank. This Colored Girls Museum is the first institution of its kind, which considers memoir, in any form, as well as objects of personal and historic significance, as evidence with empirical value.</blockquote>
 
 
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*Event Calendar:&nbsp;[http://www.thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com/events/ Upcoming Events]
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*Facebook:&nbsp;[https://www.facebook.com/TCGMuseum/ @TCGMuseum]
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*Online Store:&nbsp;[https://thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com/marketplace Marketplace]
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*Videos:&nbsp;[https://thecoloredgirlsmuseum.com/the-colored-girls-museum-videos Museum Videos]
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*YouTube:&nbsp;[https://www.youtube.com/@thecoloredgirlsmuseum7460/featured @thecoloredgirlsmuseum7460]
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[[Contact Email::thecoloredgirlsmuseum@gmail.com| ]]
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Latest revision as of 18:59, 7 February 2024

coloredgirlsmuseum.com

Inside the Colored Girls Museum.

The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM) is a memoir museum founded by Vashti DuBois that honors the stories, experiences and history of ordinary Colored Girls. The first of its kind, the museum initiates the object—submitted by the Colored Girl herself—as a representative of an aspect of her story and personal history which she finds meaningful. These objects embody her experience and expression of being a Colored Girl.

TCGM distinguishes itself by exclusively collecting, preserving, honoring and decoding artifacts pertaining to the experience and herstory of Colored Girls. This museum is equal parts research facility, exhibition space, gathering place and think tank. TCGM was founded in 2015 and is located in the historic neighborhood of Germantown in Philadelphia, an area renowned for its compliment of historic buildings and homes.

This start-up museum enterprise has been written about in the Smithsonian Magazine, Essence, Associated Press, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Travel Noire, Metro U.K., and others.

Note:  The above descriptive information came from the museum's History page.

In The News

Info



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