The Museum for Black Girls Brings Its First West Coast Location to Oakland's Jack London Square, Opening November 21-22
The Museum for Black Girls will open its first West Coast location at Jack London Square in Oakland, California, with a public opening weekend on November 21 and 22, 2026, preceded by a press and influencer preview on November 20. Ticket prices and regular public hours have not yet been published, and the museum's Oakland ticket page says tickets are coming.
Denver creative and photographer Charlie Billingsley founded the museum in 2019 as a one-night birthday installation celebrating Black women and girls. It grew into a traveling pop-up with short runs in Washington, D.C., and Houston, and later a 7,000-square-foot permanent home at Denver Pavilions, with more than 25 immersive rooms including Grandma's Kitchen and an Iconic Black Women Wall.
The Oakland page previews themed rooms called Grandma's House, The Kitchen, The Salon, The Magazine and Seat at the Table, described by the museum as concept previews rather than confirmed final installations, and says Bay Area artists will contribute work. A rolling open call for founding Oakland artists, who are paid, is reviewed monthly through opening, and a community call, "Who Raised You?", invites family photographs and 30-to-90-second voice recordings honoring the Black women who raised the contributors, for possible inclusion in Grandma's Living Room. Jack London Square is Oakland's waterfront and marina district, a local landmark since the mid-1800s.
Source: Museum for Black Girls
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Photo: 图：奥克兰 Jack London Square 的车站建筑，博物馆西海岸首店即开在这一滨水区。作者：David Wilson，CC BY 2.0，维基共享资源。 / Photo: The station building at Jack London Square in Oakland, the waterfront district where the museum opens its first West Coast location. Credit: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
