Introduction

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.

 

Mission and Vision

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.

 

 

The Colored Girls Museum in the Fringe Festival

The Colored Girls Museum: Open For Business, is a show about the Making of A Colored Girls Museum.

Audience members are treated to a Salon Styled-Guided tour of a home which has been converted to a Museum disguised as a Bed and Breakfast. This multidisciplinary event is a collaborative experience between patrons and The Colored Girls Museum. We look forward to your visit.

The Colored Girls Museum and Institute is in the process of applying for our 501c3 status. Please inquire about our fiscal sponsor if interested in making a tax deductible donation.