Whitney Plantation

The Whitney Plantation will expand its educational outreach to local and national audiences by implementing a distance learning program and community engagement program on the history and legacies of enslaved Africans, African Americans, and Creoles of Color in Southeast Louisiana. Engagement activities with local audiences will include a Teacher Open House, a Juneteenth Community Day, hosting the Slave Dwelling Project, and developing the “Museum in a Box” program, which will explore slavery through the lens of history, art, and science for offsite learning. The project will support a Digital Programs Coordinator, who will develop and implement virtual programs and associated outreach to national audiences. These accessible educational programs for both traditional and nontraditional learning spaces and audiences will further build the capacity of Whitney Plantation as an innovative museum that narrates the history of slavery from the perspective of enslaved people.