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African American Museums
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
African Museums
The Museum for African Art
Queens, New York
The Museum for African Art is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture. Recognized world-wide as the pre-eminent organizer of exhibitions and publishers of books devoted exclusively to historical and contemporary African art. The Museum has produced over 40 widely acclaimed exhibitions and catalogues exploring aspects of Africa's rich artistic traditional and cultural heritage.
www.africanart.org | www.theafricacenter.org
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian
Washington, DC
The only national museum dedicated to the exhibition, conservation and study of the arts of Africa from the entire continent, this premier facility is home to over 7,000 objects, houses galleries devoted to changing exhibitions that focus on a range of subject matters, and is committed to educating its visitors, through a variety of public programs and services, about the arts and cultures of Africa.
Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco California
An international museum, based in San Francisco, MoAD is committed to showcasing the "best of the best" from the African Diaspora. This museum embraces the newest applications in media technology, MoAD features an interactive theater and immersive exhibitions. This coupling of art, culture and technology enables MoAD to bring Africa, the African Diaspora and the world community closer together. Museum visitors and those experiencing MoAD through the Internet can exchange histories and stories, share and debate viewpoints, and find common expression in the many kinds of experiences that MoAD provides. orld.
General Musuems
The Museum of Modern Art MoMA
New York City
The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, New York
High Museum of Art
Atlanta, Georgia
the High Museum of Art is one of the larger museums in the South; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art.
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, Housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. The aim is to serve its diverse public as a dynamic, innovative, and welcoming center for learning through the visual arts.
Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, Alabama
Museum of Fine Art, Houston
Houston, Texas
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is one of the largest art museums in America with a total of 300,000 square feet of space dedicated to the display of art. The Hirsch Library is one of the largest art libraries in the Southwest. The collection contains more than 51,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco de Young
San Franciso, California
The de Young is San Francisco's oldest museum. Its collections include American paintings, decorative arts and crafts, and arts from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, as well as western and non-western textiles. Long known as the City's Museum, the de Young is particularly recognized for its many educational arts programs for children and adults. The de Young reopened its state-of-the-art new facility in Golden Gate Park on October 15, 2005.
Specialty Musuems
