Image credit: “The Negro Motorist Green Book” cover, 1940. Courtesy Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, New York Public Library.On November 16, […]
Times are listed in Central Time. Looking for an engaging research project for your students that combines historical events and personal narratives? Using online materials from both Centropa and Holocaust […]
Human Rights Day is observed every year on December 10— the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is […]
Join Holocaust Museum Houston and the American Jewish Committee Houston for a special screening of the Ukrainian film by Ady Walter SHTTL. This film follows a Jewish Soviet Red Army soldier returning […]
Considered one of the most comprehensive surveys of African American history and culture outside the Smithsonian Institution, The Kinsey Collection features the shared treasures amassed by Shirley and Bernard Kinsey during their […]
While the Museum is closed on Mondays, our galleries will be open on Martin Luther King Jr. Day with free admission presented by H-E-B. On this annual commemoration, we remember […]
A central theme of The Kinsey Collection exhibition is the Myth of Absence – that contributions made by African Americans in industry, art, science and politics have been omitted from history books. […]
"The Cultivators," Samuel L. Dunson, Jr. Courtesy of The Kinsey African American Art & History CollectionJoin us for an interactive, in-person teacher workshop to prepare for the arrival of The Kinsey […]
Meet Megan Hoyt who will read her book, Bartali's Bicycle, at Holocaust Museum Houston's Boniuk Library and other area libraries for Holocaust Remembrance Week. This program is brought to you […]
On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated by Soviet troops. In 2005, the UN General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Museum admission is free on this […]