Fort Worth: National Juneteenth Museum calls for artifact donations to tell story of emancipation
Published: Sun, 03/19/23
National Juneteenth Museum calls for artifact donations to tell story of emancipation
The new 50,000-square-foot building, which is expected to break ground in 2023, will be located in the Historic Southside neighborhood.
Courtesy: National Juneteenth Museum
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
BY MEGAN CARDONA
MARCH 16, 2023 2:40 PM
The National Juneteenth Museum, to be located in Fort Worth, is now accepting cultural artifact donations. Museum curators announced Thursday that donors can help tell the story of Juneteenth by contributing objects, art, personal letters, diaries, videos and photographs that document the history of emancipation and Juneteenth.
Juneteenth recognizes when enslaved Black Americans in Texas gained their freedom June 19, 1865, over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Fort Worth, home to the “Grandmother of Juneteeth” Opal Lee, was chosen as the home for the National Juneteenth Museum in 2021. Lee, a civil rights activist, was nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.
The museum will be on the 900 block of East Rosedale Street in the Historic Southside neighborhood.
A groundbreaking is slated for later this year and is expected to open in June 2025.
If you have a cultural artifact related to emancipation or Juneteenth, fill out a form found on the museum’s website.
If you have questions contact museum personnel at collection@thenjm.org.
WHAT OBJECTS CAN I DONATE TO THE JUNETEENTH MUSEUM?
Examples of objects that can be donated listed on the form include: notes, letters, diaries, journals badges, buttons, paraphernalia newspapers, magazines posters programs, papers, pamphlets clothes, garments, uniforms digital images, video footage, recordings sculpture, fibers historical photographs, prints, fine art oral history interviews.