This is an incomplete list of museums, which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness. Revisions and additions are welcome.

This is a list of museums about, or otherwise focused on African Americans.

List

African American museums - Alphabetical
Name	Location	Image
African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa	Cedar Rapids, Iowa
African American Museum and Library at Oakland	Oakland, California
African American Museum in Philadelphia	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexandria Black History Museum	Alexandria, Virginia
America's Black Holocaust Museum	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Anacostia Museum	Washington, D.C.
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia	Richmond, Virginia
California African American Museum	Los Angeles, California
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History	Detroit, Michigan
Civil War Memorial Museum	Washington, DC
Creole Heritage Folk Life Center	Opelousas, Louisiana
DuSable Museum of African American History	Chicago, Illinois
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site	Washington, D.C.
Great Blacks in Wax Museum	Baltimore, Maryland
Great Plains Black History Museum	North Omaha, Nebraska
Idaho Black History Museum	Boise, Idaho
L.E. Coleman African-American Museum	Halifax County, Virginia
Legacy Museum of African American History	Lynchburg, Virginia
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center	Little Rock, Arkansas
Muhammad Ali Center	Louisville, Kentucky
Museum of African American History, African Meeting House	Boston, Massachusetts
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center	Wilberforce, Ohio
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington, D.C.	The Museum on the Web
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center	Cincinnati, Ohio
New Orleans African American Museum	New Orleans, Louisiana
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum	Monroe, Louisiana
Northwest African American Museum	Seattle, Washington
Oak Hill Heritage House & Multicultural Research Library	Oxford, North Carolina
River Road African American Museum	Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum	Hammond, Louisiana
The African American Museum in Cleveland	Cleveland, Ohio
Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art	Savannah, Georgia
Weeksville Heritage Center	Brooklyn, New York

External links

• Map and details of museums in the US devoted to African American history, "Jim Crow History", PBS (dated, but still useful)

See also

• African American history