The Museum is closed for renovation. When we reopen, this page has everything you need to plan your visit.

The Watson Reading Room currently has over 3,000 holdings documenting African American history and is available for research by appointment.

The Park, on Holland Lane, is open dawn to dusk.

The Museum, at 1315 Duke Street, is closed for renovation until further notice. Look for expanded exhibits on Alexandria’s role in the domestic slave trade when we reopen.

Located at 1001 S. Washington Street. Open dawn to dusk.

Alexandria’s African American history is told through an online StoryMap and can be experienced in-home on your computer or on your smartphone as you walk the trail along the Potomac River.

Learn about the 1939 Sit-Down Strike and the Robert H. Robinson Library.

Read about the Museum’s collections, including Moss Kendrix (pictured above), and see selected collections online, including the Black Lives Remembered Collection, Carlton Funn, and the Parker-Gray Archives.

Learn about our annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Black History Month, Juneteenth and Kwanzaa programs, and upcoming events. View lectures and concerts online.

Alexandria's African American history includes a vibrant Black population dating to the 18th century, one of the largest slave trading operations, and America's first Sit-Down Strike in the early days of the Civil Rights movement.

The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project (ACRP) is a city-wide initiative dedicated to helping Alexandria understand its history of racial terror hate crimes and to work toward creating a welcoming community bound by equity and inclusion. Learn more, read the newsletter, and become involved.

Learn about the history and archaeology of The Fort: A Post-Civil War African American Community, and about the Interpretive Plan for Fort Ward Park that will include the full range of its history, especially including the African American experience.