Museums are listed alphabetically, by state
A || B || C || D || E || F || G || H || I || J || K || L || M || N || O || P || Q || R || S || T || U || V || W, X, Y and Z

Key ** = major collections

Alabama

Birmingham
• Birmingham Museum of Art

Arizona

Phoenix
• Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art

Sedona
• Sedona Arts Center

Tempe
• Arizona State University Art Collections

California

Berkeley
• Phoebe A. Hearst (formerly Robert H. Lowie) Museum of Anthropology, University of California **

Los Angeles
• Los Angeles County Museum
• Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA **

San Diego
• San Diego Museum of Art

San Francisco
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Santa Ana
• Bowers Museum

Santa Barbara
• University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

Stanford
• Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University formerly known as Stanford University Museum of Art

Colorado

Denver
• Denver Art Museum

Connecticut

New Haven
• Yale University Art Gallery

District of Columbia

Washington, DC
• Howard University Museum
• National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution **
• Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

Florida

Gainesville
• Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art **

Miami
• Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Georgia

Atlanta
• High Museum of Art **
• Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
• Spelman College

Hawaii

Honolulu
• Honolulu Academy of Arts

Illinois

Chicago
• Art Institute of Chicago **
• David and Alfred Smart Museum, University of Chicago
• DuSable Museum of African-American History
• Field Museum of Natural History **
• May Weber Museum of Cultural Arts

Normal
• Ewing Museum of Nations, Illinois State University

Urbana-Champaign
• Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Indiana

Bloomington
• Indiana University Art Museum **

Indianapolis
• Herron Gallery at the Herron School of Art
• Indianapolis Museum of Art **

South Bend
• Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame

Iowa

Iowa City
• University of Iowa Museum of Art **

Kansas

Chanute
• Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum

North Newton
• Kauffman Museum

Kentucky

Lexington
• University of Kentucky Art Museum

Louisiana

New Orleans
• Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
• Southern University at New Orleans
• New Orleans Museum of Art **

Maryland

Baltimore
• Baltimore Museum of Art **

College Park
• University of Maryland Art Gallery

Massachusetts

Amherst
• University of Massachusetts Art Gallery

Boston
• Museum of Fine Arts**

Cambridge
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology **

Salem
• Peabody Museum of Salem

Michigan

Ann Arbor
• University of Michigan Museum of Art

Detroit
• Detroit Institute of Art **

East Lansing
• Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University

Minnesota

Minneapolis
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts

St. Paul
• Minnesota Museum of Art

Missouri

Columbia
• University of Missouri-Columbia Museum of Art & Archaeology

Kansas City
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art **

St. Louis
• St. Louis Art Museum

New Hampshire

Hanover
• Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College **

New Jersey

Montclair
• Montclair State College

Newark
• Newark Museum**

Princeton
• Princeton University Art Museum

Tenafly
• Society of African Missions

New Mexico

Sante Fe
• Museum of International Folk Art

New York

• Brooklyn
  • Brooklyn Museum **

Brooklyn Children’s Museum

Buffalo
• Buffalo Society of Science **

• New York City
  • American Museum of Natural History **

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

• **

Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture

Purchase
• The Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York

Queens
• Queens Museum

Rochester
• University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery

Syracuse
• Syracuse University School of Art

North Carolina

Chapel Hill
• William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Charlotte
• Mint Museum

Durham
• Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University

Greensboro
• Mattye Reed African Heritage Center, North Carolina A & T State University

Raleigh
• North Carolina Museum of Art

Ohio

Cincinnati
• Cincinnati Art Museum

• Cleveland
  • Cleveland Museum of Art**

Cleveland Museum of Natural HistoryCleveland State University, Afro-American Cultural Center

Dayton
• Dayton Art Institute

Toledo
• Toledo Museum of Art

Wilberforce
• National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center

Oklahoma

Oklahoma City
• Kirkpatrick Center

Oregon

Portland
• Portland Art Museum

Pennsylvania

Carlisle
• Dickinson College
• Lincoln University

Merion
• Barnes Foundation

Philadelphia
• University of Pennsylvania, University Museum **

Pittsburgh
• Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts

Rhode Island

Bristol
• Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University

South Carolina

Orangeburg
• Stanback Museum & Planetarium, South Carolina State College

Tennessee

Memphis
• University of Memphis Art Museum

Nashville
• Fisk University Galleries

Texas

Dallas
• Dallas Museum of Fine Arts **

Fort Worth
• Kimbell Art Museum

Lubbock
• Texas Tech University Museum

• Houston
  • Menil Collection**

Museum of Fine Arts

Virginia

Charlottesville
• University of Virginia

Fairfax
• George Mason University

Hampton
• Hampton University Museum**
  Richmond
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts **

  Washington

  Seattle
  • Seattle Art Museum **

  Wisconsin

  Madison
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin
  Milwaukee
  • Milwaukee Public Museum

  last updated 12/7/2007