The Be Here: Baltimore storytelling program, begun in 2016, includes our latest project Stoop Shoots by Daisy Brown, among many others. Our storytelling initiatives are a way to discover the people and places of the city, and to date, the Peale maintains the regions’s largest collection of Baltimore stories.
The Peale is a home for authentic Baltimore stories, based in the oldest museum building in the country, opened in 1814 by artist Rembrandt Peale. We work with local creators – storytellers, griots, performers, artists, architects, historians, students, educators, and other culture-keepers – to produce and share their narratives of the city, its places, and the diverse people who have made Baltimore what it is today. By creating a more inclusive cultural record of the city, we aim to help people everywhere see Baltimore in a new light. In the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of the Peale family, the Peale is a new kind of civic museum: both a laboratory and a teaching museum – not just a treasure house, but also a production house of culture.
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