Facilities are accessible to the disabled. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and noon to 8 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. The museum is closed on Mondays.
Admission is free to the museum and outdoor sculpture garden.
Employing various detailed sources from fieldwork in Dahomey, Haiti, Surinam and Brazil, Herskovits argued that slavery had not erased African cultural legacies, and that people of African descent were indeed the inheritors and practitioners of their ancestral cultures in the New World and elsewhere. This multi-media exhibition of selected photographs, sound recordings and films by Herskovits commemorates his founding of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University in 1937, the first of its kind anywhere. Herskovits' ideas about the African diaspora and its significance radically departed from tradition, generating controversy and debate in their day. Today, Herskovits' ideas are acknowledged nationally and internationally and accepted as part of the new revisionist thinking that is sweeping all disciplines. The exhibition will focus on 50 years of research by this noted husband and wife team.