View toward Washington Monument from inside the museum

Publications

These publications are the perfect gifts and keepsakes for anyone visiting the Museum in person or for those who would like to experience the Museum from afar.

Featured Publication

The National Museum of African American History and Culture: A Souvenir Book

This beautifully illustrated keepsake showcases the extraordinary treasures of the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s collections. Together the objects illustrate the rich complexity of the African American experience.

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Cover of "Movements, Motions, Moments" featuring the title in an orange block at the top and an image of four women standing in the water.

2023

Double Exposure Vol. VIII - Movements, Motions, Moments

Movements, Motions, Moments draws upon the photography collection at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to explore the dynamic ways African Americans engage in and practice religion and spirituality.

2019

Double Expsoure Vol. VII - Pictures with Purpose

Pictures with Purpose, explores images from the NMAAHC’s collection of nineteenth and early twentieth-century photography.

Image of a man next to a post tightening the knot on his necktie.

2018

Vol. VI - Everyday Beauty

Cover of Fighting for Freedom, featuring a photograph of a WWI solder with the word HERO inscribed.

2017

Vol. V - Fighting for Freedom

2023

Musical Crossroads

Drawing upon objects in the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s permanent collection and featuring many of the objects on display in the award-winning exhibition of the same name, Musical Crossroads explores how objects expand our understanding of the culture of African American music-making and the foundation it has built in the United States and around the world.

2023