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Apr 28, 20181 min read

Museum Week: Kids

The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is GREAT for kids! We're actually hands on! No ropes! Whether it is dressing up, doing activities...

Apr 26, 20181 min read

Museum Week: Heritage

Greenbelt, Maryland was a planned community with cooperative businesses such as a food store, gas station, barber shop and theater. Its...

Apr 25, 20181 min read

Museum Week: Cities

We often hear "Wait...your historic house museum is MODERN!" It IS and it's a 1937 gem! The Greenbelt Museum Historic House is an...

Mar 30, 20181 min read

Women's History Month: Lenore Thomas Straus

Our last Women's History Month post is about artist Lenore Thomas Straus, whose seminal sculptures are found throughout Greenbelt, such...

Mar 16, 20181 min read

Women's History Month: Catherine Bauer

As part of on ongoing celebration of Women's History Month and the women who have been important to Greenbelt's history, let's talk about...

Mar 9, 20181 min read

Women's History Month: Eleanor Roosevelt

For Women's History Month, let's talk about the women who have been important to the history of Greenbelt, Maryland! Let's start with...

Feb 23, 20181 min read

Research: Looking for Descendants

Are you a descendant of one of the early African American families who lived on the land that is now Historic Greenbelt? Or do you have...

Feb 16, 20181 min read

African American History Month: Rossville Rural Development Homesteads

This c. 1937 Lenore Thomas Straus photograph is of African American laborers at what is now the Community Center. Her "Promote the...