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.