Specialties
The Kukutana African American History and Culture Museum is divinely unique because it the "People's Musuem!" It is the only historical museum in the Midsouth entailing over 1 million historical artifacts under one umbrella. It has over twenty permanent museums to name a few, the Rough Side of the Mountain Civil Rights Museum, Tuskegee Airmen Museum, Buffalo Soldiers Musuem, Black Holocaust Musuem, Black Invention Musuem, Cotton Jubilee Museum, Tin Pan Alley Musuem, Wade in the Water Gospel Museum, etc.
The City of Memphis, Shelby County, State of Tennessee and the world are getting ready to embark on a historical revelation to place this Metro-district on the platform of the Smithsonian Museum. No other museum in the Mid-South can compare with this vast collection of African & African American collection preserve to enlighten, insight, and reimagine how the rich history and heritage will be told, discovered and shared globally…
There is no other museum in the South where you have letters & documents signed and written by Dr. Martin Luther, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Roy Wilkins, Honorable Elijah Muhammad, President Hassan Obama, Tupac, W.C. Handy, Biggie Smalls, Black Panthers, Dr, Benjaman Lawson Hooks, Booker T. Washington, Geroge Washington Carver, Lena Horne, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marcus Moriah Garvey, Sammy Davis Jr, Nelson Mandela, Ruby Wilson, James Earl Ray, Honorable Thurgood Marshall, Julian Bonds, and more prominent individuals. A must-see museum...
History
Established in 1985.
The museum was started in 1985 in Clarksville, Tennessee. The museum was erected to tell the complete story of African descendants in its entirety focusing on the rich African culture, African royalty, Middle Passage, Transatlantic Trade, enslavement, blacks in the military, sharecropping, black farmers, Jim Crow era, black millionaires, black astronauts, black politicians, Civil Rights Movement, thus shining light on the history of African Americans which did not start with slavery.
This museum is a testament to the resiliency of African Americans through all their trials and tribulations as a people. We all built this great country called America.
This museum has travelled over the United States and abroad to educate communities about this unknown often overlooked history that shaped America. It has selected the City of Memphis as its permanent home for the world to see even though we will always have hybrid museums across the United States.
