Museums of the Black Experience

Preserves the African Meeting House (1806), the oldest Black church building still standing in the US.

The New York Public Library's world-renowned research center and exhibition space on the African diaspora.

Leading museum for artists of African descent, founded in 1968.

Burial site of more than 15,000 free and enslaved Africans in colonial New York.

Historic houses of one of America's largest free Black communities of the 1800s.

Tubman's home, church and home for the aged, part of Harriet Tubman National Historical Park.

Founded in 1976, the first museum of its kind built by a major US city.

The Corona home where Louis and Lucille Armstrong lived from 1943 until his death in 1971.

Home where the singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson spent his final years.

An 18th-century Fairmount Park mansion that was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

On the oldest land continuously owned by Black Americans, birthplace of the AME Church founded by Richard Allen.

A memoir museum honoring the stories and experiences of Black girls and women.

The South Philadelphia home of the world-famous contralto Marian Anderson.

Preserves the history of African Americans in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Ralph Gibbs's collection of Black memorabilia, art and history in South Jersey.

Tells the story of Tubman's work in Cape May and the town's Underground Railroad history.

Major collections of African and African American art.

Art and artifacts of the Black experience, housed at the Wadsworth Atheneum.

The Smithsonian's national museum devoted to African American life, history and culture.

The Smithsonian museum devoted to the arts of Africa, ancient and contemporary.

Smithsonian museum focused on urban communities and Black Washington.

Douglass's home from 1877 until his death in 1895.

Honors the more than 200,000 men of the US Colored Troops.

Maryland's largest museum of African American history.

The Mitchell Center, inside the Delaware History Museum, traces four centuries of Black life in Delaware.

The first wax museum of African American history, founded in 1983, with more than 100 life-size figures and a slave ship exhibit.

Maryland's official museum of African American heritage, in the historic Mount Moriah AME Church.

Museum of slavery, the Underground Railroad and African art in a historic Quaker community.

The plantation where Josiah Henson, whose memoir inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin, was enslaved.

A restored 1910 school telling the story of Black education in Harford County.

Landscape of Tubman's early life and escape on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Virginia's Black history from the 1600s to today.

Site of the 1619 arrival of Africans in English America and the 1861 'contraband' decision.

Built around the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Celebrates more than 50 Black music genres, from spirituals to hip-hop.

On the site of the legendary Stax Records studio.

Across from the 16th Street Baptist Church, telling the Birmingham movement story.

The Equal Justice Initiative's museum, paired with the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Troy University museum on the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

Moton Field, where Black military pilots trained in World War II.

Tells the story of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach the US, and its survivors.

The first state-operated civil rights museum in the nation.

Blues history and the life of B.B. King.

King's birth home, Ebenezer Baptist Church and the King Center.

Connects the American civil rights movement to global human rights.

Atlanta's African American history museum on the Sweet Auburn Avenue.

On Gadsden's Wharf, where nearly half of enslaved Africans brought to the US arrived.

College of Charleston archive and museum of Lowcountry African American history.

One of the first schools for formerly enslaved people (1862) and a Gullah Geechee heritage site.

In the Woolworth's building where the 1960 sit-ins began.

Plantation museum told entirely from the perspective of enslaved people.

Mardi Gras Indian, second line and jazz funeral traditions.

Black life and business in Arkansas.

Site of the 1957 desegregation crisis of the Little Rock Nine.

History center on Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

African American history and culture in Kentucky.

Art and history in Fair Park, founded in 1974.

Contemporary museum of Black culture in Texas.

Black military service from the Revolution to today.

In America's oldest incorporated Black town.

One of the world's largest museums of African American history.

Hitsville U.S.A., the home of Motown Records.

Founded in 1961, among the oldest independent Black museums in the country.

On the Ohio River, the historic line between slavery and freedom.

Ohio's national museum, near Wilberforce and Central State universities.

History of Black professional baseball, in the 18th & Vine Jazz District.

Jazz history, next door to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

Monroe School, tied to the 1954 Supreme Court decision.

The oldest remaining Black town west of the Mississippi, founded by Exodusters in 1877.

State museum of African American art, history and culture.

Contemporary art and culture of the global African diaspora.

Black history and art of the Pacific Northwest.

Library, archive and museum of Black history in the Rocky Mountain West.

Opened in 2018, a major museum of Black civilizations worldwide.

Memorial and museum of the Atlantic slave trade, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Slave-trade fort with dungeons and the 'Door of No Return.'

Built by the Portuguese in 1482, one of the oldest European slave forts in Africa.

Honors Ghana's first president and Pan-African leader.

The historic path enslaved people walked to the coast.

The rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa.

The prison where Nelson Mandela was held for 18 years.

Remembers the 1976 Soweto student uprising.

Home of the fossil 'Lucy' and Ethiopian history.

The world's largest archaeological museum of a single civilization.

Built on the site of East Africa's last open slave market.

Caribbean center for the history and memory of the slave trade and slavery.

Haiti's revolution and independence, including Columbus's anchor of the Santa María.

Massive fortress built after Haitian independence, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Yoruba-rooted Afro-Cuban religion and its orishas.

Cuba's slave route museum in a colonial fortress.

Marley's former home and Tuff Gong studio.

Barbadian history, including slavery and emancipation.

Anthropological museum on the Atlantic slave trade.

More than 6,000 works on African and Afro-Brazilian history and art.

The wharf where up to a million enslaved Africans landed, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Memorial at a burial ground for newly arrived enslaved Africans.

Afro-Brazilian culture in Bahia, Brazil's most African city.

Afro-Peruvian history and culture on the country's north coast.

Free town founded by escaped Africans in the 1600s, a UNESCO Masterpiece of Oral Heritage.

National museum on transatlantic slavery and its legacies.

The UK's national heritage center for Black British history.

London's role in the transatlantic slave trade.

Memorial in France's largest former slave-trading port.

Major collections of African art and cultures.

Memorial to Dutch slavery, site of the annual July 1 emancipation commemoration.

Belgium's museum on Central Africa, renovated to confront colonial history.

Site of Europe's first recorded slave market (1444).

Settlement founded in 1849 by freedom seekers from the US.

Home of Josiah Henson, whose life inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel.

History of African Nova Scotians since the 1600s.

Remembers the Black community demolished by Halifax in the 1960s.