Non-School Group Tour Topics

A broad introduction to UCRM’s permanent exhibition, connecting key stories, objects, people, and themes across the galleries. This signature overview tour will be adaptable for private groups and offered as the signature daily free public tour for first-time visitors, general audiences, and internal guests. 

Explores the inaugural exhibition, which celebrates the places, people, and community networks that have shaped Harlem. Participants will be able to look at how Harlem has sustained Black culture and a sense of belonging. 

Explores how Black communities organized, resisted, advocated, and built power in Northern urban environments. 

Centers the leadership of Black women and femmes in organizing, education, culture, and civil rights movements. 

Explores how visual culture, photography, and art shape history and public memory and tell stories of activism, Black life, and civil rights. 

Focus on migration, settlement, neighborhood building, culture, labor, and the transformation of cities such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Boston.