It's a part of the Smithsonian Institution. They have over 20,000 items including:
Items owned by Harriet Tubman, including eating utensils, a hymnal, and a linen and silk shawl given to her by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
The glass-topped casket originally used to display and bury the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till, the victim of racially-motivated torture and murder in Mississippi. Till's death sparked the modern African American civil rights movement.
The dress which Rosa Parks was sewing the day she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955.
A Selmer trumpet owned by jazz musician Louis Armstrong.
A dress owned by actress and singer Pearl Bailey.
A cape and jumpsuit owned by American soul singer James Brown.
The "Mothership", a 1,200-pound aluminum and acrylic glass prop created by funk music singer George Clinton and used during performances of his bands Parliament and Funkadelic.
A cherry red Cadillac convertible owned by rock and roll singer Chuck Berry.
A railroad car from Chattanooga, Tennessee, used by African American passengers during the Jim Crow era. Pete Claussen and Gulf & Ohio Railways (the company he founded in 1985) donated more than $222,000 to restore the car, which was built by the Pullman Company in 1922.
An 1874 home from Poolesville, Maryland. The dwelling was constructed by the Jones family, who were freed slaves. The Joneses later founded an all-black community nearby.
Boxing headgear worn by Cassius Clay (later to be known as Muhammad Ali).
Gymnastic equipment used by artistic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Douglas was the first African American, and first non-Caucasian of any nationality, to win the women's artistic individual all-around gold medal.
A Bible owned by Nat Turner, who led an unsuccessful slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
A letter by Toussaint L'Ouverture, leader of the Haitian Revolution slave revolt in 1791.
The desk of Robert Sengstacke Abbott, editor-in-chief of the Chicago Defender, an African American newspaper founded in 1905.
Dresses and other garments by fashion designer Ann Lowe. Lowe designed clothing for the Du Pont family, Roosevelt family, and the Rockefeller family, and created Jacqueline Bouvier's wedding dress for her 1953 marriage to John F. Kennedy.
A PT-13D Stearman biplane trainer aircraft operated by the United States Army Air Corps and used in 1944 for training members of the Tuskegee Airmen.
President Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign office from Falls Church, Virginia.
The Moog synthesizer and MPC beat machine used by hip-hop producer J Dilla.
Several paintings and pieces of terracotta sculpture from the Barnett-Aden Collection, donated by BET founder Robert L. Johnson.
Several items from the São José Paquete Africa, a sunken slave ship excavated off the coast of South Africa in 2015. The wreck is owned by Iziko Museums of South Africa, and items will be on long-term loan to the NMAAHC.[82] (Finding a sunken slave ship, raising it, and displaying it at the museum has long been a dream of museum director Lonnie Bunch.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_African_American_History_and_Culture
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