African American Museum (Dallas)

Natural materials and design motifs are used throughout the museum in a manner reminiscent of pre-industrialized cultures of the African continent.

The Museum is the only one of its kind in the Southwestern United States devoted to the preservation and display of African American artistic, cultural and historical materials.

The museum houses a rich heritage of American art and history in four vaulted galleries that are augmented by a research library.

The current museum building occupies virtually the same site as the Texas Centennial Exposition's Hall of Negro Life.

It boasts a permanent collection that consists of the works of such highly regarded African American artists as Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Larry D. Alexander, John T. Biggers, Clementine Hunter, Benny Andrews, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Welmon Sharlhorne, and Arthello Beck.