Ritz Theatre & LaVilla Museum Tickets & Tours

The LaVilla Museum is a museum of African American history and culture located in the 1929 Ritz Theater in Jacksonville, Florida. The museum documents the culture and history of people of African descent (most slaves, some free, and not all Americans) in northeast Florida prior to that territory's entry as a U.S. state in 1845, as well as LaVilla neighborhood of downtown Jacksonville. LaVilla was home to so many poets, artists, musicians, authors, and playwrights that it was known as "the Harlem of the South".