A pop-up Black history museum now fills 20,000 square feet of space on the Peninsula — and everyone is invited to stop by and learn a few things.
The Domini Hoskins Black History Museum and Learning Center, located at 890 Jefferson Ave. in Redwood City, highlights over 1,000 pieces of Black history.
The museum, one of the biggest of its kind in the Bay Area, features a huge, visually engaging collection of items. Visitors can see exhibits on President Obama, a celebration of sports figures and those from entertainment, shackles from the plantation police and a Black Lives Matter exhibit.
"I want you to be able to have learned something about Black history," Carolyn Hoskins, the museum's curator and founder, told KCBS Radio.
Hoskins' favorite section highlights history's many great Black inventors, including the creators of the three light traffic signal, a better hairbrush, a method to store blood plasma, and the doorknob.
The idea for the museum was sparked 25 years ago when Hoskins' grandson didn't want to do another report on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during February for school.
"So he says 'granny, weren’t there any other famous people that did anything?' So I can answer his question with 20,000 square feet of Black history," she said.
"People come up to me and say, 'you always want to play the race card.' Well, no. I don't want to play the card. I'm gonna play the whole deck. And the deck means all people should have the same rights and privileges of everybody else,” Hoskins explained.
The exhibit runs every Tuesday through Saturday through the end of the month, before reopening again next February.
"It's a lot to see and especially bring the kids!" Hoskins said.
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