The Arts
African-America Museums in America
This is a list of museums found throughout the United States that has collections dedicated to black culture or is solely dedicated to black people. The list also include sites that will help you find a museum. To visit the official website of these museums simply click on the name.
The A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum
104th Street between Corliss and Maryland
10406 S. Maryland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60628
Phone: (773) 850-8580
African American Civil War Memorial Museum
1925 Vermont Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-667-2667
African Americans in Philadelphia 1776 – 1876
701 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
The African Center
1280 5th Ave
New York, NY 10029
http://www.theafricacenter.org/
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052
Phone: (718) 638-5000
TTY: (718) 399-8440
Fax: (718) 501-6136
information@brooklynmuseum.org
Blackpast.org African American Museums Listing
Crispus Attucks Museum
1140 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 462002
Main: 317.226.2430
Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48202
Phone: (313) 833-7900
Fraunces Tavern Museum (FTM)
54 Pearl Street
New York, New York 10004
SR Ph: 212-425-1776 – SR Fax: 212-509-3467
FTM Ph: 212-425-1778 – FTM Fax: 212-509-3467
Jackie Robinson Museum
One Hudson Square
75 Varick Street 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10013-1917
general@jackierobinson.org
Email-Western Region: jrfwest@jackierobinson.org
The Jazz Museum in Harlem
104 E. 126th Street Suite 2D
New York, NY 10035
212-348-8300
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
Located on the Campus of Ferris State University
Big Rapids, Michigan
Phone: (231) 591 – 5873
Louis Armstrong House
34-56 107th Street
Corona, NY 11368
Phone: 718-478-8274
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 5th Ave
New York, NY 10028
Phone: (212) 535-7710
MoAD Museum of the African Diaspora
685 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA, 94105
Phone: 415.358.7200
Museum of African American History
Administrative Offices
14 Beacon Street, Suite 719
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-725-0022
Fax: 617-720-5225
E-mail: To ask questions about the Museum: history@maah.org
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
General Information: (617) 267-9300
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
New York, NY 10029
212-534-1672 Phone
212-423-0758 Fax
info@mcny.org
The National Civil Rights Museum
450 Mulberry
Memphis, TN 38103
Phone: (901) 521-9699
Email: cdyson@civilrightsmuseum.org
National Museum of African Art – Smithsonian
P.O. Box 37012 MRC 708
Washington, DC 20013-7012
202.633.4600
202.357.4879 (fax)
nmafaweb@si.edu
New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture and History
1418 Governor Nicholls Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana 70116
Phone: (504) 566-1136
Fax: (504) 566-1137
Smithsonian Museum
PO Box 37012
SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Phone: Voice 202.633.1000, TTY 202.633.5285
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
950 Independence Ave SW
Washington, DC 20560
Phone: (202) 633-4600
Weeksville Heritage Center
1698 Bergen St
Brooklyn, NY 11213
Phone: (718) 756-5250
Whitney Plantation in Louisiana
5099 LA-18
Wallace, LA 70049
Phone:(225) 265-3300
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