In the month of January, we set up our popular traveling exhibit, 150 Faces of Durham, at Durham Academy Middle School. The Cavaliers engaged with the displays as part of their social studies and local history programming! Check out this time lapse they took of our staff setting up 150… Read More
Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually in the US from September 15th through October 15th! Looking for ways to commemorate and reflect on the history and culture of Durham’s Hispanic community? The Museum of Durham History has compiled some great resources for local educators and families to learn more about… Read More
The MoDH got the Story Kiosk out of the house and on the road! Library Fest at the Durham County Library was the latest setting for the traveling video kiosk to collect Durhamites’ and visitors’ thoughts & memories. The Story Kiosk toured the county over… Read More
Over the course of the ’22-’23 school year, the Museum of Durham History has been working with academic fellows from Duke University on an exciting endeavor: redesigning our online exhibits page. During the course of this project, we have been updating the exhibits into more user friendly presentations that… Read More
The Museum of Durham History has officially started its own TikTok account. We are super excited to produce content that will reach an entirely new audience on the platform. We have even begun a series of videos named 150 Faces, 60 Seconds, in which we create 60-second biographies… Read More
If you have not seen it yet, make sure to check out the Digitized Historic Timeline right on our website! Have you ever found yourself here at the Museum spending countless hours scrolling through the historic timeline? Well, good news: now you can do it from the… Read More
We have shared some exciting developments and news with you over the past few weeks and thought to ourselves, why stop there? So, in the spirit of the season, we would like to bring you another surprise! We are thrilled to introduce our newest pilot program to you in collaboration… Read More
Join us on Feb. 16 at 12PM for a discussion about the life of Aaron McDuffie Moore, founder of Durham’s Black Wall Street. The author, Blake Hill-Saya and C. Eileen Watts Welch, President of Durham Colored Library who commissioned the biography. Hill-Saya & Welch are descendants of Moore. They will… Read More
The Museum of Durham History and Durham County Library are partnering to host a four-part, live-streaming web series that captures today’s issues, framed in the context of Durham’s history. Tune in to the Library’s Zoom webinar or the MoDH’s Facebook Live page Tuesdays at 1PM on July 21 and 28,… Read More
Digital resources are very important for the Museum of Durham History when it conducts research for exhibits. Over the next few weeks, the Museum will post a scavenger hunt that will guide you through some of the sources we use to help explore Durham’s history. The Duke… Read More