Behavioural Sciences

America, slavery and how museums can help to heal fractured societies

Reflected in glass, a woman stands in front of metal screening panels which make up the “corona” that encloses the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington September 14, 2016.

Reflections: A woman visits the National Museum of African American History and Culture Image: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Lonnie Bunch
Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fuzheado [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Silk lace and linen shawl given to Harriet Tubman by Queen Victoria Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Charles L. Blockson
Bible belonging to Nat Turner Image: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter
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