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Related Museums and Associations:
Breaking Barriers in Public Service

Breaking Barriers in Public Service:

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

The National Museum of African American History and Culture seeks to help all Americans remember, and by remembering, this institution will stimulate a dialogue about race and help to foster a spirit of reconciliation and healing.

Association of African American Museum

The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) is a non-profit member organization established to support African and African American focus museums nationally and internationally, as well as the professionals who protect, preserve and interpret African and African American art, history and culture.

The Field Museum

The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. It provides collection-based research and learning for greater public understanding and appreciation of the world in which we live. Its collections, public learning programs, and research are inseparably linked to serve a diverse public of varied ages, backgrounds and knowledge.

The National Museum of the American Indian

The National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is dedicated to the history, culture, and contemporary life of Native peoples across the Americas. Its exhibits, architecture, and programs highlight Indigenous voices, traditions, and resilience, offering visitors a deeper understanding of Native heritage.

Leadership for the Public Service:

World Leadership Museum

The design of the Museum has evolved through extensive consultations to include world-class exhibits on International leaders as well as a learning institution for research and teaching on the topic of leadership.

Women and Leadership Archives

The Women & Leadership Archives (WLA) collects, preserves, organizes, describes, and makes available materials of enduring value to researchers studying women's leadership activities.

Women in the Public Service:

The First Ladies

The First Ladies explores the unofficial but important position of first lady and the ways that different women have shaped the role to make their own contributions to the presidential administrations and the nation. The exhibition featurex more than two dozen gowns from the Smithsonian’s almost 100-year old First Ladies Collection, including those worn by Frances Cleveland, Lou Hoover, Jacqueline Kennedy, Laura Bush, and Michelle Obama. A section titled “Changing Times, Changing First Ladies” highlights the roles played by Dolley Madison, Mary Lincoln, Edith Roosevelt, and Lady Bird Johnson and their contributions to their husband’s administrations. The First Ladies encourages visitors to consider the changing role played by the first lady and American women over the past 200 years.

The National Women's History Museum (NWHM)

The National Women’s History Museum educates, inspires, empowers, and shapes the future by integrating women's distinctive history into the culture and history of the United States.

Womens Rights National Historical Park

Discover how five women changed the world

Women of the West Museum

The Struggle for Women's Suffrage  

The Betsy Ross House

The well-known and loved story of Betsy Ross sewing the first Stars & Stripes is tightly woven into the colorful fabric of America's rich history.  The Betsy Ross House, the birthplace of the American flag, is alive with the sights and sounds of the 18th century. Tour the house and then stay a while longer to learn more about Betsy and her exciting life and times through our interactive, historical programming.

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