Almost Unknown Exhibition showcases visuals of The Underground Railroad. (Photo by Claudia Estrada)

Winterthur Museum opens new exhibit ‘Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery’

Claudia EstradaCulture, Art, Delaware Arts, Headlines

WINTERTHUR—A new exhibition, now open at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, brings to life a powerful and previously unrealized vision of Black American culture, history, and resistance. Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery is inspired by an 1859 essay by educator and journalist William J. Wilson—writing under the pen name “Ethiop”—who imagined a fictional gallery that highlighted the lived experiences …