De jurk van Rosa Parks, een slavenhut uit South Carolina, de rode Cadillac van Chuck Berry, de trompet van Louis Armstrong, de bokshandschoenen van Muhammad Ali, campagnegadgets van Barack Obama, een verkoopbewijs van 600 dollar voor een 16-jarig meisje, een jumpsuit van James Brown....
Het is maar een kleine greep uit alle objecten die te zijn zien in het gloednieuwe National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), gevestigd aan de Mall in Washington. Het is het negentiende museum van het Smithsonian Instituut.
President Obama opende het museum op 24 september met de woorden: "By knowing this other story we better understand ourselves and each other. It binds us together. It reaffirms that all of us are America, that African-American history is not somehow separate from our larger American story. It is central to the American story."
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
National Museum of African American History and Culture © Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC
Vest gedragen door Jimi Hendrix © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Denim pak van Charley Pride © National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charley Pride
Sex jumpsuit van James Brown © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Red Cadillac Eldorado van Chuck Berry © National Museum of American American History and Culture, Donation of Charles E. Berry
Trompet van Louis Armstrong © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Shirt dan Michael Jackson tijdens de Victory tour in 1984 droeg © National Museum of African American History and Culture
De bank die tijdens de Oprah Winfrey show werd gebruikt. © Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Oprah Winfrey
Jurk gedragen door Glinda the Good Witch in The Wiz on Broadway in 1975 © Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
Paspoort van schrijver James Baldwin © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Jurk gedragen door Rosa Parks in 1955, 1956 © Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
Een groepje vrouwen en kinderen die gebruikt werden als slaven in Virginia, 1861 © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Amulet in de vorm van ketenen uit de 17e, 18e eeuw © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Hoed van Bo Diddley © National Museum of African American History and Culture
Slavenhut uit Point of Pines Plantation in Charleston, 1800-1850 © Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of The Edisto Island Historic Preservation Society
Bijbel van Nat Turner, 1830 © Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter
Boekje met hymnen van Harriet Tubman © Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L. Blockson
Hoofdbescherming van Muhammad Ali © National Museum of African American History and Culture
