National Museum of African American History and Culture

Museum acquisitionsnews

Acquisitions round-up: London museums jointly purchase pre-Raphaelite painting that depicts Jamaican woman

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter institutional collections worldwide

Hannah McGivern

Acquisitionsnews

Getty institute and Smithsonian museum will share an unparalleled photo archive of Black American life

The photo archives of Ebony and Jet magazines will be studied and digitised by Los Angeles’s Getty Research Institute and Washington, DC’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

J.S. Marcus

Reopeningsnews

Smithsonian will reopen eight museums and other venues in May after more than five-month closures

National of Gallery of Art also plans to open its West Building in Washington, DC

Nancy Kenney

Acquisitionsnews

Acquisitions round-up: two US museums co-purchase portrait of Breonna Taylor—and artist Amy Sherald gives proceeds of sale to charity

Our pick of the latest gifts and purchases to enter international museum collections

Nancy Kenney and Sophia Kishkovsky

Appointmentsnews

Poet and author to lead National Museum of African American History and Culture

Kevin Young, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, will succeed Lonnie G. Bunch III

Nancy Kenney

Three to seereview

Three projects celebrating Juneteenth, the holiday marking the end of slavery in the US

From freedom papers on view at the National Museum of African American History and Culture to Issac Julien's film about famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Gabriella Angeleti, Gareth Harris and José da Silva

Museums & Heritagenews

Amid turbulent US protests, Smithsonian's African American museum opens a conversation about race

Goal of online portal is to spur dialogue about racism and its “corrosive impact”

Nancy Kenney