The Great Blacks In Wax Museum
Educators Exhibit
 The Great Blacks In Wax Museum began as a traveling exhibit more than twenty-years- ago by Drs. Elmer and Joanne Martin. In 1983 the two founders opened a small museum in downtown Baltimore with about 25 wax figures. They quickly outgrew the space and in 1988 the Museum relocated to a larger location on the Eastside of Baltimore City. This year is the Museum’s 20th Anniversary.
One characteristic that makes the museum a highly unique treasure is its displays of historical African-Americans; the exhibits are of wax figures clad in period attire and creatively surrounded by dramatic theme displays. Each exhibit is accompanied by a brief story that gives information about what makes them worthy of historical status.
The two exhibits that are featured here are of our Educators Exhibit and OurMaryland Room Exhibit. The Educators Exhibit includes wax figures of Mary McLeod Bethune who rose from a sharecropper to become one of the nation’s most distinguished leaders, Booker T. Washington who stressed industrial education and built Tuskegee Institute into the largest and best supported black institution of his time and George Washington Carver who is well known for the many products he produced using the peanut, soybeans, and sweet potatoes.
 The Maryland Room Exhibit features famous Marylanders. There are musicians, politicians, a basketball player, an advocate, storyteller, business leaders and more. To name just a few: Bea Gaddy, advocate for the poor, hungry and homeless; Dr. Benjamin Carson, pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and songstress – Billie Holiday.
Come see these and over one-hundred more of our distinguished historical figures at:
The Great Blacks In Wax Museum
1601-03 East North Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21213
We are open 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Tuesday through Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. Beginning in July we will be open on Monday’s too, from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Check out our website anytime at http://www.ngbiwm.com/
For more information contact our office at 410-563-3404.
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