List of museums focused on African Americans

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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.

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African American museums - Alphabetical
Name	Location	Image
African American Museum and Library at Oakland	Oakland, California
African American Museum in Philadelphia	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
African Meeting House	Boston, Massachusetts
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
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
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	Boston, Massachusetts
National Museum of African American History and Culture	Washington, D.C. proposed
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center	Cincinnati, Ohio
Northwest African American Museum	Seattle, Washington
Oak Hill Heritage House & Multicultural Research Library	Oxford, North Carolina
River Road African American Museum	Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art	Savannah, Georgia
The African American Museum in Cleveland	Cleveland, Ohio

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