It is now one of the largest African-American museums in the country.

In the meantime, other cities moved forward with major new African-American museums.

The challenges facing these institutions reflect those at African-American museums across the country.

Many curators at African-American museums combine art and history, saying that much of the black experience can be told through the visual arts.

That is among the highest of any African-American museum, but it pales before the budgets of major national museums.

We will look at where there are gaps in scholarship, how we can best work collectively with other African-American museums.

It is, as I said, a housewarming in advance, and a buzz-builder, for a national African-American museum.

One session will be led by a black representative at the African-American Museum in Hempstead.

A new theater and a financially viable African-American museum near the intersection could enhance it as the cultural center of north Omaha.

The gift, the foundation's largest, is believed to be the largest to an African-American museum in the United States.