This year the 20th anniversary of BaltimoreReginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland History and African American culture. To pay tribute to its name, the museum has a world -class exhibition, Titan: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis, which offers an in -depth trip to extraordinary life and the durable legacy of the Maryland native. Lewis is praised as the first African American to establish and lead a $ 1 billion company. More than that, he was a devoted family man, a specialized lawyer and a trailblazer pioneer.
The exhibition has a look at his life in the Board Room and beyond. Through personal artifacts, rare photographs and intimate narratives, visitors will get the man he was and the impact he left. The museum, named in his honor, was established by a $ 5 million donation from the Reginald F. Lewis Foundation. The exhibition should have taken about a year and a half to meet, but was completed in six months.
The curator and director of interpretation of the museum, Robert Parker, describes it as the “most Herculous task that I think I have ever had to live.” He told Bravity: “This exhibition was an important company to ensure -we captured who it was in public history, in terms of how we celebrate blackness in America, but more particularly, here in Maryland. We wanted to celebrate the name of our institution and, therefore, we felt like this was the greatest way to do it.”
His family, including his widow Loida Nicolas-Lewis, and his two daughters, Leslie Lewis and Christina Lewis Halpern, were essential to bring the exhibition to life. Mrs. Lewis is still an active part of the process.
“When she saw the final product, she was in tears of joy, because she was very remembered to her, and her life together. So Titan offers viewers the opportunity to really understand man, myth and legend, and especially eliminates myths,” added Parker.
Throughout the exhibition, viewers will tour Lewis’s training years, until their work as a philanthropist. There are some immersive opportunities for people to connect, including the opening of a replica of their high school closet and seeing how it was as a student, scholar and its extracurricular activities. Lewis went to Harvard University, making history as the first person to enter university without requesting it. From there, he worked at Wall Street and as a lawyer, among other things.
Of course, there are many Lewis artifacts as a black experienced businessman, the main offers he sealed, his life as a world -class traveler, and his personal moments with his family and friends with portraits of family moments, he on the golf course and more.
As for his travels, Lewis was a corporate giant. He had a private plane to fly around the country and around the world. In his exhibition, there is a replica of a reaction fuselage with different prizes and different recognitions throughout his career. The family lent their briefcase to the sample with the original content, which included a couple of glasses, a white pen worth about $ 900 during this period of time, a calculator, gloves and an Afro selection.
Visit the Titan exhibition at 830 E Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21202. The exhibition will remain open until April 2026.
