Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Physician and civil rights advocate Dr. Charles H. Wright founded this museum in 1965. Its galleries cover African American history and culture through art, documents, scholarship, family history, migration, struggle, and the experience of Black Detroit.Admission is paid, and some major exhibitions cost extra. The museum closes Monday and stays open later Thursday. Photography is prohibited inside exhibition spaces unless current signs say otherwise, and on-site parking is paid. More

Physician and civil rights advocate Dr. Charles H. Wright founded this museum in 1965. Its galleries cover African American history and culture through art, documents, scholarship, family history, migration, struggle, and the experience of Black Detroit.Admission is paid, and some major exhibitions cost extra. The museum closes Monday and stays open later Thursday. Photography is prohibited inside exhibition spaces unless current signs say otherwise, and on-site parking is paid. More