Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
MuseumsMissouri, United States11-50 Employees
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a privately funded nonprofit museum dedicated to preserving and interpreting the history of African-American baseball and its influence on social progress in the United States. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District, it opened in 1991 and moved to its current building in 1997, housing a 10,000-square-foot exhibit that presents this chapter of American history. The museum holds a national designation from Congress as America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, awarded in 2006. It sits near the Paseo YMCA, a short distance from the site associated with the Negro National League’s founding in 1920. In 2026 it announced an expansion of its Kansas City site, signaling ongoing growth of its facilities and programming.