Weeksville Heritage Center

Using a contemporary lens, we activate this unique history through the presentation of innovative, vanguard and experimental programs. Weeksville advances its mission through history, preservation, visual and performing arts, ecology and the built environment.

Our Mission

To document, preserve and interpret the history of free African American communities in Weeksville, Brooklyn and beyond and to create and inspire innovative, contemporary uses of African American history through education, the arts, and civic engagement.

“If you want to identify what a human community needs to be - anywhere in our world - Weeksville would be an excellent model"

— Marcia Goldman, Former President, Weeksville Board of Trustees

"Everyplace has a Weeksville, where ordinary people came first and labored to create a more hospitable living setting for their loved ones. The rediscovery and preservation of this local history provides a means of reestablishing a continuity with the past so that children, armed with the knowledge of the contributions of their forebears can gain strength to meet the challenge of the future."

— Joan Maynard, Former Executive Director of Weeksville Heritage Center