Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum

Griot Museum

Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum is an Afrocentric teaching museum in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. It was founded in 1992. The museum offers visitors a "hands-on" African American experience by seeing, hearing, saying, touching and doing. The museum's stated goals is to "rectify, reclaim and restore the contributions of Black people throughout history, which have been denied, ignored and omitted."^[1]^[2] Murals line the garden walls of the museum, picturing Afrocentric subjects.

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