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The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
22 sty 2024 · This map highlights cemeteries where African Americans, both enslaved and free, were buried or re-interred, as well as sites that are no longer extant but tell critical stories associated with African American history.
Maps for all public areas of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
1 lut 2018 · From the African American Civil War Museum to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, there are plenty of sites worth the hike for discovering how significant African Americans have been not only...
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is located at 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW on the National Mall. The four-level museum opened on Sept. 24, 2016, becoming the only national museum solely dedicated to the documentation of African American life, history and culture.
In the words of Lonnie G. Bunch III, founding director of the Museum, “there are few things as powerful and as important as a people, as a nation that is steeped in its history.” This Museum will tell the American story through the lens of African American history and culture.
Edwina Dei-Davis, who lives in Ontario, shares her reflections during her first visit to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture earlier this year.
