Maryland's official African American history museum occupies the former Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church, built by free Black congregants in 1875. The collection covers Maryland figures including astronomer and surveyor Benjamin Banneker, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman — all three with deep Maryland roots — alongside rotating exhibitions on the wider African American experience.
The building itself, with its Gothic Revival arched windows and pressed-tin ceiling, is one of the few surviving 19th-century Black churches in Annapolis. The museum was renamed in 2024 to add Tubman's name (originally founded in 1984 as Banneker-Douglass). Admission is free.