Roots 101 African American Museum

"Expect small, local Amd Home grown. Upon entry I wore the shackles American slaves war - created Instant and painful understanding of our history. It started as an individual collection that grew into a small museum of African art and black history in the United States from slavery to the present. exhibits include music. Culture, black publications and radio and Tv. Good interviews on each of these. Great recreation of a room from the Allen hotel, one of the largest hotels in the green book."

"The whole place is lovely. My whole family felt welcome, and we loved that you were able to touch the artifacts! What a great way to immerse yourself with real history. I will say I didn't see any shirts for folks such as myself."

"Just visited ROOTs 101 African-American museum. I had no idea Louisville had such a great historical museum. The staff was amazing very knowledgeable and super friendly. Definitely a must visit."

"My girls and I were in town after the Beyonce World Tour stop In Louisville, also looking for Black activities and found Roots 101 from searching Google. Right away you are emotionally vested and submersed in the African American experience. The videos are highly informative, although a bit hard to hear. You learn how African Queens were always held in high regards by their King which was reflected in many of the pieces. The African pieces are vast and the entire collection is amazing. The shackles made us cry, the racist displays made us mad while the protest to progress and Black to the Future uplifted us. I found places in my hometown listed in the Greenbook, learned about Louisville black history & visited Big Momma’s house. Mr Collins asked my opinion about it and I told him the ONLY thing missing was plastic on the couch. If you had a Big Momma (like I did), it was like a blast from past. If you didn’t, enjoy the experience. The owner and the staff were so very kind and we all thoroughly enjoyed our visit. They didn’t have the t-shirt’s we wanted in our size, so the t-shirt Man hooked us up and printed & pressed them right away. We left knowing that we made our ancestors proud and most certainly felt closer to them."

"Would recommend this to any visitors! There is so much important history on display here. It feels like there's room here to make things more polished (many of the TVs were not working and as much as I wanted to love the Black Futures room it just felt really empty). Would also love to see more accessibility features! I didn't see any way for wheelchair users to get to the second floor and there were no closed captions on the videos."