Exhibitions

Frederick Douglass Gallery

January 1, 1980 – June 16, 1986

National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC

3rd Floor, 318 A St., NE

See on Map Floor Plan

On view permanently in a third-floor room of the black leader's first Washington home* are furniture, photographs, books, newspapers and other memorabilia which reflect his life and times.

*Not to be confused with another of Douglass's Washington homes, located in S.E. Washington and called "Cedar Hill," which is maintained by the National Park Service. The American abolitionist's first home was located in two of the several townhouses that now comprise AfA.