ABSTRACT
Broadway Housing Communities has been actively working to provide affordable housing for families who have experienced generational poverty and homelessness in New York since the 1980s. The Museum also partners with non-profit organisation Cool Culture which provides free access to cultural institutions for New York City families. Throughout, the aim was to provide high quality spaces for children to have fun but also deep engagements with arts and culture, in keeping with long and rich cultural history of Harlem and Sugar Hill. As Sugar Hill's Director Lauren Kelley describes, the museum is imagined as intergenerational space where children can experience high quality art and literature, meet artists, writers and performers and be inspired to practise art and storytelling themselves. Community Boards exist across New York and the Board in Sugar Hill had a reputation for being exacting, an outcome of a large number of people passing through the area with projects which took little note of the area's cultural value.
