TripCart’s US Travel Blog

February is Black History Month, and we at TripCart have done all the work for you and compiled a list of sites in the U.S. that are dedicated to the history and culture of the African American community. (You can thank us later.) So now that you don’t have to even do the research, you have no excuse not to visit one of these museums or historic monuments during the month.

From fantastic exhibits of slavery in America at the United States National Slavery Museum to a survey of African art at the Museum for African Art to a memorial honoring a historic black leader at the Booker T. Washington National Monument, you’ll learn more this month throughout your travels than you learned during all those years at grade school.

Got the kids with you? They’ll particularly like Oran Z’s Pan African Black Facts and Wax Museum, the African American Firefighters Museum, and the Bronzeville Children’s Museum (located at the Plaza Shopping Center in Evergreen Park, Illinois), the only children’s museum in the country dedicated African American history and culture.

The list is a bit long, so for today we’ll share all the sites in the northeast (down to Virginia), and next post will continue with the rest of the country. Enjoy!

• Museum of Afro-American History – Boston, Massachusetts
• Museum of African American History – New York City, New York
• Museum for African Art – Long Island City, New York
• African American Museum in Philadelphia
• USS Constellation – Baltimore, Maryland – Special tours are available on the weekends during Black History Month.
• African American Civil War Memorial – Washington, D.C.
• The Black Fashion Museum – Washington, D.C.
• United States National Slavery Museum – Fredericksburg, Virginia
• Museum and White House of the Confederacy – Richmond, Virginia
• Black History Museum and Cultural Center – Richmond, Virginia
• Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site – Richmond, Virginia
• Booker T. Washington National Monument – Hardy, Virginia