#BNPVisits: National Museum Of African American History & Culture

The National Museum of African American History & Culture opened on Saturday September 24th.

So, of course, a BNP contingent visited on Sunday. NMAAHC has been pretty active on twitter with their standard account @NMAAHC and with their more interactive @AskNMAAHC and we followed in their footsteps documenting all the glory that was the museum (with a bit of shade because we can only be us.) [divider type=”thin”] Nicole: What did we learn? If you want to see all of the best t-shirts worn by all the good-looking black people, go to this museum. Seriously, it was a parade of “Oh! I need that” the entire day. Yes, day. This is not a small museum or a quick trip. Beyond the fact that there are four full (and I mean full) floors, this is not the kind of information that you can run through. There were times, like when I read about integrating the army and thought about my grandfather who would have loved to have had a museum like this to visit, when I had to sit down. When we saw the remains of a slave ship – and the child-sized shackles – I had to stop. There were so many other times when I was reminded that not only does the building contain a massive amount of information, but it is a history to be considered reverently and so rushing through isn’t even an option. Also, go in chronological order. Ain’t nobody trying to end up at slavery.

Me: Well, I don’t want to -start- at slavery@realnicolehomer: but we don’t want to end there either @NMAAHC — Lauren Bullock (@LBullockP…