Museums and cultural centres collect and preserve various artefacts, photographs, and other textual materials on Black history across the Americas. Some offer searchable databases of digitized materials while others present selections from their collections in virtual exhibitions.
Below is a sampling of museums and cultural centres dedicated to Black history. For more options in Canada and the United States, see the directories for the Canadian Museums Association and the Association of African American Museums.
Canada
- Africville Museum. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- Afromusée. Montreal, Quebec.
- Amhertsburg Freedom Museum. Amherstburg, Ontario.
- Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. Cherry Brook, Nova Scotia.
- Black Loyalist Heritage Centre. Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
- Chatham-Kent Black Historical Society & Black Mecca Museum. Chatham, Ontario.
- John Freeman Walls Historic Site and Underground Railroad Museum. Lakeshore, Ontario.
- Josiah Henson Museum of African-Canadian History. Dresden, Ontario.
- Saskatchewan African Canadian Heritage Museum. Regina, Saskatchewan.
- Sheffield Park Black History Museum. Clarksburg, Ontario.
Latin America/Caribbean
United States
- Buffalo Soldiers National Museum. Houston, Texas.
- DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Chicago, Illinois.
- National Civil Rights Museum. Memphis, Tennessee.
- National Museum of African American History and Culture. Washington, DC.
- National Museum of African American Music. Nashville, Tennessee.
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Cincinnati, Ohio.
- National Voting Rights Museum and Institute. Selma, Alabama.
- Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Kansas City, Missouri.
- The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. Detroit, Michigan.
- The Studio Museum. Harlem, New York.
