The home of

Black British History.

Our mission is to collect, preserve and celebrate the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in the UK and to inspire and give strength to individuals, communities, and society.

Black Cultural Archives is an independent, national registered charity.

  • Thursdays – Saturdays

    10:00 – 18:00

    Sundays

    12:00 - 17:00

  • Current exhibition: Bob Marley One Love – Free entry

    Usual rates:

    £5 General Admission

    £3 Concessions

    *Donations welcome

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  • 1 Windrush Square, Brixton, SW2 1EF

 

We need our own Archives where important acts and achievements of the past, which are now scattered or pushed into the margins of European history can be assembled; where facts now presented as negative, can be re-presented from our point of view, as positive factors in our liberation.

— Len Garrison, Co-Founder of Black Cultural Archives