Hugh Gordon's Bookstore, Los Angeles, CA, 1944

"And finally, as a 21st century institution, NMAAHC must be a place of collaboration. We must be a truly national museum that reaches beyond Washington to engage new audiences and to collaborate with the myriad of museums and educational institutions that have explored and preserved this important history well before this museum was created. Collaboration is one of the core values of this museum."

Thank you for your interest in collaborating with the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The building site has been selected. A core staff has been hired and we are establishing our strategic plan. Great scholarship and care is going into the examination of the nature of our collections and signature programs. Concurrently, we are producing exhibitions, publications and national programming.

Each year we will select and announce collaboration priorities. Potential collaborators will submit a brief proposal. An internal review committee will be convened five times annually to select proposals. If your proposal is selected, the collaboration will be designated as one of the following:

• Audience Evaluation Collaboration
• Capacity Collaboration
• Collections Collaboration
• Creativity Collaboration
• Exhibition Collaboration
• Planning Collaboration
• Programming Collaboration

Because we are engaged with the business of establishing a new national museum, our formal Collaboration Program will begin at a yet-to-be determined date.