The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center
History Museum · Chicago, Illinois
The oldest independent Black history museum in the United States, founded in 1961 in the living room of the artist and teacher Margaret Burroughs and her husband Charles, and now occupying a former park administration building on the edge of Washington Park. It is named for Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, the Haitian trader of African descent who was Chicago's first permanent non-Indigenous settler, and it was renamed to its present title over Juneteenth weekend in 2022.
740 East 56th Place, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States
CLOSED MONDAYS. Generally Tuesday to Sunday 10 AM - 5 PM. Free parking on site. Free-admission days published annually.
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