Museum · Washington Park
DuSable Black History Museum
740 E 56th Pl, Chicago 60637
The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, in Washington Park on the South Side, is the country's oldest independent museum devoted to Black history and culture. It holds art, artifacts and archives and runs talks, forums, film screenings and family science programs in its building beside the park.
Permanent exhibitions
- Freedom: Origin and Journey
- The Harold Washington Story
- Clearing a Path for Democracy: Citizen Soldiers of the Illinois Fighting 8th
- Fighting Racism in the Trenches: A Colored Woman in World War I
- Collections of African American art and historical artifacts
