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Houston Museum of African American Culture

Houston Museum of African American Culture

This cultural hub offers film screenings, art performances, and community engagement, showcasing the rich African American experience and fostering unity.

OUR EXPERIENCES
We offer monthly curated film screenings, including Space is the Place, Descendants, and It Was All a Dream, regularly featured in major media. Our monthly Art of Poetry performances provide another platform for artistic expression. During the pandemic, we hosted drive-in movies in underserved neighborhoods as part of our HMAAC at Night initiative. We also launched the Bert Long, Jr. Cash Prize Award to recognize and support emerging artists.

HMAAC presented advanced local screenings of major films like Black Panther, The Hate U Give, and Origin, often free to the public. These events reinforce our role as a hub for Black film and storytelling in Houston. Our exhibitions and initiatives have been featured in Art in America, cited in bestselling books like Smashing Statues, and studied in two Ph.D. dissertations—demonstrating our lasting cultural impact.

ABOUT US
The mission of HMAAC is to collect, conserve, explore, interpret, and exhibit the material and intellectual culture of Africans and African Americans in Houston, the state of Texas, the Southwest, and the African Diaspora for current and future generations. In fulfilling our mission, our exhibitions, programs, and films reflect the indisputable fact that, while our experience is unique, it has been influenced by—and continues to influence—numerous races, genders, and ethnicities, resulting in our multicultural present. Our vision is to be a cultural portal through which people share and converge histories and contemporary experiences that acknowledge and expand the African American experience. From such interactions, we aim to foster unity and build a common future.

OUR IMPACT
HMAAC engages the community through art, history, and current issues, helping all generations better understand today’s world and shape our future. We support education with artist residencies at Worthing High and Imani Middle School, and art classes at the Harris County Jail Women’s Center—recognized nationally, including at the Arts Thrive conference.

Our forums with local professors and debate teams foster civic dialogue. Public art projects like Diamond Mines and message murals across Houston promote inclusion, pride, and hope. We’ve earned national recognition, appeared in major publications, and received honors from museum organizations. Ava DuVernay named us Houston’s Black Film House.

DETAILS
To learn more, contact: jguess@hmaac.org

What are your minimum and maximum group sizes?
10-40

Do you require visitors to pre-book?
Prebookings are not required but are available.

Do you have group rates?
No

Do you pay commissions to travel advisors?
No

What languages do you offer your services in?
English

When are you open?
Thursdays-Saturdays; 11:00 am to 6:00pm

What accommodations do you make for people living with disabilities?
We have an elevator and ramped entry.