Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures

Where African history comes to life in Baltimore! Visit America’s first and only children’s museum truly focused on African history and cultures.

We seek to educate, inspire, and connect children from all walks of life to discover and experience a true African odyssey.

About the Museum

Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures is a privately owned children’s museum in Baltimore. It was founded in 2016 in an effort to enrich and inspire Baltimore’s urban community’s cultural desert. Our permanent collection of African art complements changing exhibits on a variety of African countries, ethnic groups, and traditions.

Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures also houses an administrative office and various public gathering areas that can be used for cultural and art related events. Our goal is to create an environment where visitors are not merely spectators, but active participants. This is a place where African culture and art come to life.

Teaching the Community

We aim to provide much-needed knowledge of Africa, through play and other interactive activities, to school children in Baltimore and beyond. We hope, through these activities to cultivate their interest in African cultures and hopefully encourage a love of learning of other cultures.

As a premier African Cultural children’s museum in the Mid-Atlantic region, we seek to educate, inspire, and connect children from all walks of life to discover and experience a true African odyssey.

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” -Hon. Marcus Garvey

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Sankofa Children’s Museum of African Cultures, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization aimed to educate, inspire and connect children from all walks of life to the vast diversity of the African continent.

We promote a world of understanding through engagement with art, culture, geography and history of Africa’s great contributions to society.