Legacy Project, Inc. (Legacy Museum of African American History)

The Legacy Museum, in partnership with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities (VFH), will create a network of African American museums in central Virginia with the goal of building institutional capacities through professional development workshops and scheduled group meetings. The project design is intended to reduce the isolation facing many small and emerging African American museums that are striving to fulfill their missions without the benefit of advice from museums with similar interests. VFH will help the Legacy Museum organize and facilitate the two-year project. Funding will support network meetings and hands-on professional development seminars for staff members and board representatives from six African American museums in Virginia. Each of the museums will be encouraged to identify and invite community partners to participate in project activities. The central Virginia network will provide the basic structure for a permanent network of all of Virginia's African American museums.