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Established | September 5, 2022 |
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Location | 75 Varick Street Manhattan, NY 10013 |
Architect | Gensler |
Website | jackierobinsonmuseum.org |
The Jackie Robinson Museum is a museum and educational center on Varick Street in Manhattan that honors the legacy of Jackie Robinson. The museum, the city's first to primarily focus on the Civil Rights Movement, [1] opened in 2022 after more than fourteen years of planning and construction. [2] The museum's collection includes more than four thousand artifacts, most from the Robinson family's own collection, highlighted by Robinson’s original National Baseball Hall of Fame plaque. [3]
The museum, which also showcases Robinson's civil rights work, [4] is operated by the Jackie Robinson Foundation. [5]