Haitian Heritage Museum

The Haitian Heritage Museum will use funds to support its “Museum Magnet Program,” an educational and outreach program for Miami-Dade County public schools. The program’s goal is to increase cultural awareness of Haitian culture through Haitian art, music, history, and literature. Program activities will include classroom and after-school activities for students, as well as professional development for teachers and administrators. The activities will be coordinated by professional Haitian artists through seminars, musical presentations, art exhibitions, and storytelling. The program will be implemented through the North Miami Museum Magnet Program, a unique cultural-object–based curriculum model for the Museum Magnet School system in North Miami. This unique curriculum includes history, anthropology, geography, math, literature, architecture, music, and art.