National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington

A statue of Clara Brown, who was born a slave in Virginia around 1800. Brown traveled to Colorado after she was freed when her slaveowner died in 1856 and established a successful laundry business.

Preparations are finalized for the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.

A theater showing a film about the history of blacks in baseball is part of the sports exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A uniform belonging to retired U.S. Army Gen. Colin Powell is in the Military History Gallery.

A vintage, open-cockpit biplane was used at Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute to train African American pilots for Army Air Corps service during World War II.

Instruments, costumes and other artifacts fill the Taking the Stage section of the fourth floor Culture Galleries at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Instruments, costumes and other artifacts, including the Funkadelic P-Funk Mothership, fill the in the Musical Crossroads section.

A pair of slave shackles are on display in the Slavery and Freedom Gallery.

Nine of the 10 Olympic medals won by American track and field athlete Carl Lewis are on display in the Power of Place exhibition.

A helmet from the World War I Harlem Hellfighters.

The Washington Monument is framed by a window at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.