African American Art & Culture: Research Centers, Museums, & Libraries

The largest and most widely used resource dedicated to collecting and preserving the papers and primary records of the visual arts in America.

Includes images of more than 4,000 objects in the collections and exhibitions, with artist information.

Find exhibitions, books, articles, photographs, prints, audio and video streams, and selected external links for research in the history and cultures of the peoples of Africa and the African Diaspora.

An independent archive, library and museum of African-American history and culture. Includes significant African-American art holdings (Aaron Douglas and AFAC Collections) of artists of the 19th and 20th centuries.

A sampler drawn from the Library of Congress' rich resources: books, periodicals, prints, photographs, music, film, and sound.

The oldest African-American museum, located at a major historically black university. International Review of African-American Art (see journals list) is published here.

The homepage of Detroit's Museum of African-American History, the world's largest Black historical and cultural museum.

The oldest research center for the study of African Americans in the United States, located at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. See also, Image of the Black in Western Art via ARTstor.