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The Peale: Baltimore's community museum

By Sheilah Kast,
Melissa Gerr
Published October 7, 2022 at 12:42 PM EDT
The Sankofa Experience runs Oct. 23 through Jan. 2. at The Peale. Pictured: Kibibi Ajanku, founder of Sankofa Dance Theater. Photo: Armeta, Sankofa Dance Theater photographer
The Sankofa Experience runs Oct. 23 through Jan. 2. at The Peale. Pictured: Kibibi Ajanku, founder of Sankofa Dance Theater. Photo: Armeta, Sankofa Dance Theater photographer

It’s been more than 200 years since what is now ‘The Peale: Baltimore’s Community Museum” opened its doors. So it deserved a facelift! Five years and 5-and-a-half million dollars later, it’s welcoming visitors again. We hear what’s new!
Links: Accomplished Arts Apprentices recruitment fair, The Guardians Reveal Party, Our Voises, Our Truth; Hostile Terrain; Behind the Diagnosis, Through My Eyes; Sankofa Experience.

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Sheilah Kast
Sheilah Kast is the host of On The Record, Monday-Friday, 9:30-10:00 am.
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Melissa Gerr
Melissa Gerr is a Senior Producer for On the Record. She started in public media at Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., where she is from, and then worked as a field producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting in Portland. She made the jump to audio-lover in Baltimore as a digital media editor at Mid-Atlantic Media and Laureate Education, Inc. and as a field producer for "Out of the Blocks." Her beat is typically the off-beat with an emphasis on science, culture and things that make you say, 'Wait, what?'
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