These museums are commonly known as African American museums. According to scholar Raymond Doswell, an African-American museum is "an institution established for the preservation of African-derived culture."

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List of museums

Name	City	State	Founded
A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum	Chicago	Illinois	2005
African American Civil War Memorial Museum	Washington	D.C.	1999
African American Multicultural Museum	Scottsdale	Arizona	2005
African American Museum	Dallas	Texas	1974
African American Museum and Library at Oakland	Oakland	California	1994
African American Museum in Cleveland, The	Cleveland	Ohio	1956
African American Museum in Philadelphia	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	1976
African American Museum of Iowa	Cedar Rapids	Iowa	2003
African American Museum of Nassau County	Hempstead	New York	1970
African American Museum of the Arts	DeLand	Florida	1994
Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society Museum	Jersey City	New Jersey	1984
Alabama State Black Archives Research Center and Museum	Huntsville	Alabama	1990
Alexandria Black History Museum	Alexandria	Virginia	1987
America's Black Holocaust Museum	Milwaukee	Wisconsin	1988
Anacostia Museum	Washington	D.C.	1967
August Wilson Center for African American Culture	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	2006
Banneker-Douglass Museum	Annapolis	Maryland	1984
Baton Rouge African American Museum	Baton Rouge	Louisiana	2001
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute	Birmingham	Alabama	1992
Black American West Museum & Heritage Center	Denver, Colorado	Colorado	1971
Black History 101 Mobile Museum	Detroit	Michigan	1995
Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia	Richmond	Virginia	1988
Bontemps African American Museum	Alexandria	Louisiana	1988
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site	Topeka	Kansas	2004
California African American Museum	Los Angeles	California	1981
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History	Detroit	Michigan	1965
Clemson Area African American Museum	Clemson	South Carolina	2002
Creole Heritage Folk Life Center	Opelousas	Louisiana	1970s (early)
Crispus Attucks Museum	Indianapolis	Indiana	1998
Delta Cultural Center	Helena	Arkansas	1991
Dorchester Academy and Museum	Midway	Georgia	2004
Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American History Museum	St. Petersburg	Florida	2006
DuSable Museum of African American History	Chicago	Illinois	1960
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site	Washington	D.C.	1962
George Washington Carver Museum	Phoenix	Arizona	1980
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center	Austin	Texas	1980
George Washington Carver Museum, The	Tuskegee	Alabama	1941
Great Blacks in Wax Museum	Baltimore	Maryland	1983
Great Plains Black History Museum	Omaha	Nebraska	1975
Idaho Black History Museum	Boise	Idaho	1995
International Civil Rights Center and Museum	Greensboro	North Carolina	2010
Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum at Lexington History Center	Lexington	Kentucky	2002
John E. Rogers African American Cultural Center	Hartford	Connecticut	1991
John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture	Tallahassee	Florida	1996
Kansas African-American Museum	Wichita	Kansas	1997
L.E. Coleman African-American Museum	Halifax County, Virginia	Virginia	2005
LaVilla Museum	Jacksonville	Florida	1999
Legacy Museum of African American History	Lynchburg	Virginia	2000
Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site Visitors Center	Atlanta	Georgia	1996
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site	Washington	D.C.	1979
Mary McLeod Bethune Home	Daytona Beach	Florida	1956
Mayme A. Clayton Library and Museum	Culver City	California	2010
Minnesota African American History Museum and Cultural Center	Minneapolis	Minnesota
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum	Jackson	Mississippi	2017
Mosaic Templars Cultural Center	Little Rock	Arkansas	2008
Muhammad Ali Center	Louisville	Kentucky	2005
Museum of African American History & Abiel Smith School	Boston	Massachusetts	1964
Museum of the African Diaspora	San Francisco	California	2005
National African American Archives and Museum	Mobile	Alabama	1992
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center	Wilberforce	Ohio	1987
National Center for Civil and Human Rights	Atlanta	Georgia	2014
National Center of Afro-American Artists	Roxbury	Massachusetts	1969
National Civil Rights Museum	Memphis	Tennessee	1991
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington	D.C.	2015
National Museum of African American Music	Nashville	Tennessee	2013
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center	Cincinnati	Ohio	2004
National Voting Rights Museum	Selma	Alabama	1991
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum	Kansas City	Missouri	1990
New Orleans African American Museum	New Orleans	Louisiana	1988
Nicodemus National Historic Site	Nicodemus	Kansas	1996
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum	Monroe	Louisiana	1994
Northwest African American Museum	Seattle	Washington	2008
Old Dillard Museum	Fort Lauderdale	Florida	1995
Oran Z's Black Facts and Wax Museum	Los Angeles	California	2000
Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art	Newark	Delaware	2004
Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture	Baltimore	Maryland	2005
River Road African American Museum	Donaldsonville	Louisiana	1994
Slave Mart Museum	Charleston	South Carolina	1938
Smith-Robertson Museum and Cultural Center	Jackson	Mississippi	1984
Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum	Tallahassee	Florida	1976
St. Rita's Black History Museum	New Smyrna Beach	Florida	1999
Tangipahoa African American Heritage Museum	Hammond	Louisiana	2005
Tubman African American Museum	Macon	Georgia	1981
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site	Tuskegee	Alabama	2008
Weeksville Heritage Center	Brooklyn	New York	2005
Wells'Built Museum	Orlando	Florida	2009

See also

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• Artworks commemorating African Americans in Washington, D.C.
• List of streets named after Martin Luther King, Jr.

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