MEROE MUSEUM

MEROE Museum honors Dr. Carter G Woodson (1875 – 1950) started the American version of this concept in the early 20th century – 1924, officially adopted in 1976.

Like W.E.B. Dubois, Woodson believed that young African Americans were not being taught of enough of about their heritage and the achievements of their ancestors the builders of the first civilization.

To get his message out Carver first turned to his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi, which created Negro (Black American /African American) Literature Week in 1924. He chose February because it was the month in which Frederick Douglas was Born. His legacy reached into the 20th and 21s century as he was the first to try to create an Encyclopedia Africana, a 6 volume set focused on the history and culture of Africans in the diaspora.

MEROE Museum honors the legendary Divine Nine. The nine organizations and people that represent the foundation of the Black Greek organizations. 

Many people know the organizations for current activities, campaigns and events. In this exhibit we focus on the origins, thoughts and ideas from the founders.

Additionally we are partnering with over ten Second Life Black Greek organizations to create an exhibit which reflects their history and mission. The Black Greek Community in Second Life is vast.  Our goal is to share their information to illustrate that organizations in SL not only make a difference but mirror the activities and missions of many existing Black Greek Orgs in the real world.

MEROE Museum honors House Music and its birth in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. This exhibit focuses on highlighting many of the original DJs whose creative art defined House Music from the Warehouse, to the Muzic Box, to the Bizmark Hotel and more.

The exhibit is composed of sample mixes and of the era from a variety of famous founders and DJs such as legendary Ron Hardy, Andre Hatchett, Frankie Knuckles and more.

We also feature original art work from flyers/pluggers of that era. Pluggers represented the only way house heads (people participating in house music) could find the latest spots and music. 

Additionally, we will feature live stream DJ sessions featuring Chicago House music style mixes. See Events for more.

MEROE Museum honors our modern era ancestors with an indepth look at inventions and innovations that exist today today to benefit all of humanity. 

Exhibit includes Pushkin, Dumas, Du Sable, Garvey & infamous Charles Drew and more. the exhibit we illustrate how successful our people worked together from during slavery up till recently. 

The exhibit illustrates our progression from during slavery and auction blocks to the rise of our beloved towns and institutions to the burning of Tusla.

This exhibit also includes a review of Marcus Garvey’s famous Black Starline, a business ahead of it’s time.

We also challenge the viewer to remember not all institutions of that era are gone, there are still Banks and other businesses from that era in existence.

An exhibit focused on illustrating how the concepts of FBA – Foundational Black Americans, ADOS – African Descendants of Slaves, Black Americans, African Americans, and Black American Indians have an interwoven past and powerful future working together.

The exhibit helps viewers to understand the differences and beauty of each local cultural identify and how it relates to the overall global identity and socio-economic identity of Pan Africanism.

This exhibit is focused on countering the current divisive tactics used by many to divide and separate us into more fractions.

MEROE Museum collabos with local Second Life Artist, DJ Skully to create a thought provoking art exhibit that enables the viewer to ask themselves if colorism affect their reality and treatment of others.

Colorism an issue that is like a plague to the universal Black community and culture. Colorism can cause self hatred as well as hatred of others , simply based off of Hue.

We must accept and realize that all Black people come in a variety of hues from the lightest to the darkest. It is the lack of understanding this that separates us. 

We developed this exhibit to try to get people to reflect on colorism, and hopefully show them a different view of life. Some times when we see people some only see the hue of the skin, (which does not always indicate the amount of melanin someone has either). This exhibit is a thought experiment meant to cause the viewer to rethink and challenge their programming.

MEROE Museum collabos with Second Life Artist, Giselle Chauveau to re-envision the current “history” of our culture and people. 

Many of our concepts of history and culture are locked into specific areas of the earth such as North East Africa, and Western Afri-Asia (now known as the Middle East). However every day we learn more n more how an ancient Black civilization travelled the earth setting up colonies, etc. As of late, we are beginning to accept that history may not be a progression from simple man to current. In fact, new evidence suggests a highly advanced civilization existed before the earth’s global catastrophe, and the survivors of this advanced civilization provided the foundation for our current world.

We wanted to know what if the story was more than that. This exhibit focuses on envisioning what our timeline could be? in addition, each single piece of art represents a unique frame or era within the overall timeline. We hope all enjoy.

January’s Exhibit includes sculpture, artwork and a companionbook focused on Adinkra Symbols and Kente Cloth – Symbols and Meanings. Adinkra and Kente Cloth play a pivotal role in lives of Africans, and Africans in the Diaspora-like African Americans. We have a contributing artist from the Second Life Community, Diamond Martinez.

Black August honors, Black Political Prisoners, Pan Africanism, we focus on  our ancestors. Our Ancestors continually fought for liberation and freedom in the form of slave rebellions, such as Nat Turner and those in Haiti up till present day. Black August is honored every year to commemorate the fallen freedom fighters of the Black Liberation Movement, to call for the release of political prisoners in the United States, to condemn the oppressive conditions of U.S. prisons, and to emphasize the continued importance of the Black Liberation struggle.
We continue this struggle today for human rights and liberation for all. Free Mutulu Shakur, Free Mumia Abu Jamal. 

December’s Exhibit includes Artwork, Book and Film by the famous Pan-African Scholar Runoko Rashidi’s They Came Before Columbus. The exhibit focuses on his ground breaking work discussing the African presence in the Americas

December’s Exhibit includes Artwork and information focused on MAAT and her relationship to the modern day Angel. The concept is explored with art by SL Residents.

Long term exhibits include Nubia & KMT, 16th -19th century central and west African art, Asia origins and Africa the Future.

The MEROE Library Tablet allows all users to access all of the books in our library. The tablet features lifetime updates for all residents in Second Life. All of the books located in our library were found in ancient and lost locations across the web, often in the internet archive itself. Each month will feature a new release of books.

The tablet is free for everyone.

The tablet will also enable users in RL to access our Library for free access to our book collection.

The following books are available in this release:

ISIS Papers, Black Skin & White Masks, Autobiography of Malcolm X, African Origins of Civilization, Philosophies & Opinions of Marcus Garvey, & They Came before Columbus

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