NMAAHC - Exhibitions and Programs

Let Your Motto Be Resistance

As the museum's inaugural exhibition, the collection of the National Portrait Gallery represents African American resistance across 150 years of U.S. history.

StoryCorps Griot

This year-long initiative will strive to gather and preserve the life stories of African American families by recording their oral histories.

Exhibitions

Current exhibitions include Color Pictures and Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956 - 1968.

Folkways Recording Project

The Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has issued new recordings and reissued historic recordings of a wide range of music and spoken word.

Save Our African American Treasures: A National Collections Initiative

A National Collections Intiative of Discovery and Preservation is a collaborative effort to preserve and collect African American culture.

Folklife Festival

The Roots of Virginia Culture will mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States.