Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

About Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (The Wright) is a museum of African-American history and culture located in Detroit, Michigan. Located in the city's Midtown Cultural Center, The Wright is one of the world's oldest and largest independent African-American museums and holds the world's largest permanent collection of African-American culture. Holding a collection of more than 35,000 artifacts, The Wright's current 125,000-square-foot museum opened as the largest museum in the world dedicated to African-American history. With over 50,000 visits in 2024, it is considered one of the top tourist destinations in the city.

The Wright, whose exhibits include Underground Railroad documents and letters from Malcolm X and Rosa Parks, has also hosted memorial events for Parks, former Detroit mayor Coleman Young, Aretha Franklin, and former U.S. representatives John Conyers Jr. and Barbara-Rose Collins who lay in state in the museum's rotunda in 2005, 1997, 2018, 2019, and 2021, respectively.

Additionally, The Wright is the current home of The National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen. It also produces the African World Festival—one of the largest festivals dedicated to celebrating the food, fashion, music, and dance cultures of the diaspora.

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Founded
1965

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