Museums in the United States with Collections of African Art
Museums are listed alphabetically, by state
A || B || C || D || E || F || G || H || I || J || K || L || M || N || O || P || Q || R || S || T || U || V || W, X, Y and Z
Key ** = major collections
Alabama
Birmingham
Arizona
Phoenix
Sedona
Tempe
California
Berkeley
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Santa Ana
Santa Barbara
Stanford
Colorado
Denver
Connecticut
New Haven
District of Columbia
Washington, DC
- Howard University Museum
- National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution **
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Florida
Gainesville
Miami
Georgia
Atlanta
Hawaii
Honolulu
Illinois
Chicago
- Art Institute of Chicago **
- David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago
- DuSable Museum of African-American History
- Field Museum of Natural History **
- May Weber Museum of Cultural Arts
Normal
Urbana-Champaign
- Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Indiana
Bloomington
Indianapolis
South Bend
Iowa
Iowa City
Kansas
Chanute
North Newton
Kentucky
Lexington
Louisiana
New Orleans
- Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
- Southern University at New Orleans
- New Orleans Museum of Art **
Maryland
Baltimore
College Park
Massachusetts
Amherst
Boston
Cambridge
Salem
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Detroit
East Lansing
Minnesota
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Missouri
Columbia
Kansas City
St. Louis
New Hampshire
Hanover
New Jersey
Montclair
Newark
Princeton
Tenafly
New Mexico
Sante Fe
New York
Brooklyn
Buffalo
New York City
- American Museum of Natural History **
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael C. Rockefeller Wing**
- Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture
Purchase
Queens
Rochester
Syracuse
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
Charlotte
Durham
Greensboro
Raleigh
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cleveland
- Cleveland Museum of Art**
- Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryCleveland State University, Afro-American Cultural Center
Dayton
Toledo
Wilberforce
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Stillwater
Oregon
Portland
Pennsylvania
Carlisle
- Dickinson College
- Lincoln University
Merion
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Rhode Island
Bristol
South Carolina
Orangeburg
Tennessee
Memphis
Nashville
Texas
Dallas
Fort Worth
Lubbock
Houston
Virginia
Charlottesville
Fairfax
Hampton
Richmond
Washington
Seattle
Wisconsin
Madison
Milwaukee
Last updated 29 March 2021