The Museum of African American Art Los Angeles, United States

The California African American Museum (CAAM) is a museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, United States. The Museum focuses on enrichment and education on the cultural heritage and history of African Americans with a focus on California and western United States. Admission is free to all visitors. Their mission statement is " To research, collect, preserve, and interpret for public enrichment the history, art and culture of African Americans with an emphasis on California and the western United States. CAAM hosts independent and collaborative educational programs both on and off site of lectures, workshops, innovative programs, and hands-on activities that serve public and private school students, museum patrons and community visitors.

CAAM exists to research, collect, preserve and interpret for public enrichment, the history, art and culture of African Americans. The museum conserves more than 6,300 objects of art, historical artifacts and memorabilia, and maintains a research library with more than 20,000 books and other reference materials available for limited public use.

The permanent collection includes paintings, photographs, sculpture and artifacts representing the diverse contributions of African Americans. The collection ranges from African art to 19th-century landscape. Along with its permanent collection, CAAM hosts specially mounted exhibitions curated out of its own collection, as well as traveling exhibitions from other museums.

The Museum of African American Art (MAAA) is a nonprofit cultural and educational institution dedicated to the interpretation, promotion, and preservation of art by or about people of African descent and their contributions to world culture. The museum was founded in 1976 by noted artist and art historian Dr. Samella Lewis and a group of academic, artistic, business, and community leaders whose goal was to increase public awareness of African American art. The Museum of African American Art is the repository for the Palmer C. Hayden Collection, including the John Henry Series, giving the public insight into the life and work of one of the leading artists of the Harlem Renaissance. MAAA seeks to present engaging exhibits and programs in which artists and their art inspire new thinking about issues that reflect, illuminate, or intersect with the shared experiences of people throughout the African diaspora and beyond. Located on the 3rd floor of Macy's in the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza in Los Angeles, the museum invites the exhibition of internationally recognized artists as well as emerging local artists, while keeping art experiences accessible to the public with free admission. The Museum of African American Art proudly serves as an exhibit venue for emerging artists, a community event space, and a field trip destination for students from local schools.
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