Harriet Tubman Museum Vandalized Just Weeks After Reopening

Image Courtesy of Harriet Tubman Museum and Educational Center

CAMBRIDGE, Md. – The Harriet Tubman Museum & Educational Center is being forced to close its doors for more repairs after just reopening the location weeks prior.

On Sunday afternoon, museum officials announced that the center had been vandalized, including damage to the museum’s rear entrance and theft of the museum’s donation box.

“We’ve worked so hard to make our museum a special place in the community!” the center said on social media. “Hard to believe that someone would break-in our treasured institution!”

WMDT reached out to Museum Director Linda Harris on Monday, who says the museum has received plenty of support from the community.

“I got to tell you, the outpouring of care and concern has been tremendous. We are getting donations like crazy,” Harris elaborated. “And I I’m very grateful for that… So I think we’re probably going to collect enough money for a door.”

Museum officials say the vandals also caused damage to the site’s mural of Bucktown General Store, a site where Harriet Tubman was seriously injured as a child by a store owner’s attempt to capture a runaway slave.

Due to the damage at the museum, the center will be closed until further notice as staff works to access the damage and implement repairs. Further, the museum is kindly asking for donations to help with the aforementioned repairs. If you would like to make a contribution to the museum’s repair efforts, you can do so here. Donors are asked to denote your donation’s purpose is to help with recent vandalism, if applicable.

To learn more about the Harriet Tubman Museum, check out its feature on Discover Delmarva here. For questions, call Harris at 301-310-3296.