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connections
links to art, culture, education and community
Underground Railroad Museum
Flushing, Ohio
The exhibits portray what is known about slavery and the Underground Railroad in Ohio and features an understanding of the culture in the 1800s.
www2.1st.net/ugrrf/
Tubman African American Museum
Macon, Georgia
This museum houses fourteen galleries including the world class Noel Collection of African Art. This collection includes 2,000-year-old Nok figures, beaded Yoruba wall panels, and Benin bronzes. Other galleries housed in the Museum are devoted to a range of aspects of black American life. From the cuisine of Africa and America in the Soul on Rice Gallery to the Local History Gallery to the Military Leaders Gallery, the Museum has sought to preserve the turbulent but triumphant experience of blacks in America.
www.tubmanmuseum.org
The Anacostia Museum & Center for African-American History and Culture
Washington, D.C.
As the Smithsonian Institution's museum of African American history and culture, the Museum explores American history, society, and creative expression from an African American perspective.
www.nmafa.si.edu.voice.html
Studio Museum in Harlem
New York, New York
A museum committed to providing a context within which to address the contemporary and historical issues presented through art created by artist of African descent.
www.studiomuseum.org
Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American history & Culture is dedicated to sharing the courageous journeys toward freedom and self-determination made by African American Marylanders. Museum leaders hope it will be a place to remember struggles, celebrate accomplishments, and serve as a beacon of pride, hope, and inspiration for all people.
www.africanamericanculture.org
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
Detroit, Michigan
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African History strives to be a world renowned history museum with outstanding collections and research used to produce innovative exhibits that celebrate significant events and accomplishments of African Americans.
www.maah-detroit.org
California African American Museum
Los Angeles, California
The museum currently has on exhibit the works of Phil Upchurch, a renowned jazz guitarist, however this exhibit celebrates his artistry as a photographer. "I have found that by removing my thoughts from the equation and moving within God's flow my journey has just begun." - Phil Upchurch
www.caamuseum.org
The DuSable Museum of African American History
Chicago, Illinois
The DuSable Museum of African-American History is the oldest museum of its type in the country. It was founded in 1961 by a diverse group of Chicago artists and educators, including Margaret and Charles Burroughs, who set out to correct the institutionalized omission of black history and culture in the educational institutions. It is named after Jean Baptist Pointe DuSable, a Haitian fur trader who discovered Chicago and is the oldest institution of its type in the country. The DuSable Museum has research, curatorial and educational divisions.
www.dusablemuseum.org/
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, D. C.
The mission of this museum is to create a forum to display the rich and varied history of African Americans in the United States. The actual facitly is less than a decade from completion, however, its interactive web presence is currently being developed and is available for viewing.
www.nmaahc.si.edu/
