Sweet Home Café
Sweet Home Cafe is temporarily serving a limited menu. The 2017 James Beard Award nominated Sweet Home Café boasts both refined and down-home cooking intricately linked to the geographic regions that inspired each dish, revealing stories about African American culture. through food.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
National Museum of African American History and Culture
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday–Sunday
12 to 5:30 p.m. Monday
Free timed-entry passes required
About
The National Museum of African American History and Culture is a place where all Americans can learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience, what it means to their lives, and how it helped us shape this nation.
Highlights
Harriet Tubman's hymnal; Nat Turner’s bible; A plantation cabin from South Carolina; Guard tower from Angola Prison; Michael Jackson's fedora; and works by prolific artists such as Charles Alston, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden, and Henry O. Tanner.
Dining
Getting Here
We encourage the use of public transportation.
Metro Station: Federal Triangle or Smithsonian (Mall exit)
There is no public parking facility for Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. Limited 3-hour metered parking and commercial lots are available—see parking map. Reserved parking near the museums can be purchased in advance through ParkWhiz.
Note: ParkWhiz is a third-party vendor (ParkWhiz Privacy Policy).
Current Exhibitions
- Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
- Double Victory: The African American Military Experience
- Slavery and Freedom
- Cultural Expressions
- Musical Crossroads
- Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968
- Making a Way Out of No Way
- A Changing America: 1968 and Beyond
- A Century in the Making: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Power of Place
- Visual Art and the American Experience
