Hampton University Museum

200 William R. Harvey Way, Hampton, VA 23668 · Hampton · Lower Virginia Peninsula

Founded in 1868, the nation's oldest African American museum and one of Virginia's oldest museums overall, holding more than 9,000 objects with particular strength in African American, African, Native American, and Asian art — including the largest existing museum collection of works by John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Samella Lewis. Advances its educational mission through permanent and changing exhibitions, a Children's Curiosity Room, the Center for African American History and Life, publications, lectures, and art and teacher training workshops.