We honestly love your amazing story telling. Love that you put this together and shared all the history. We have still never been to DC and checked out any of the places, but we would love to see this museum. Great job putting all this together

@dennis3643

Жыл бұрын

What History???? Open your eyes,GOD IS OUR HISTORY. FAKE HAIR DRUGS MISEDUCATION GANG VIOLENCE RAP MUSIC ABORTIONS CANNIBALISM "OUR HISTORY"??????? DRUGS GOOD TIMES SANFORD AND SON ROOTS THE COLOR PURPLE... WHAT HISTORY?????

Thank you for this! I recently visited the African-American History Museum for the first time. It’s a beautiful tribute to people crucial to American history. A long overdue addition to the museums on the Mall. I was able to get same-day tickets on a weekday afternoon. The first couple of years the museum was open the tickets were all used up months in advance, even on a Tuesday. Tickets have always been free.

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

When I visited to the museum I had a 2-3 hour wait. It was well worth it and I agree that its a nice addition to the Mall. So much fascinating history that doesn't always surface.

I want to take my family here and thanks for putting this together. 🙏🏿

@JoseOnTour

5 ай бұрын

Thank you. There is a lot of great history in the museum and many other exhibits I didn't include. Your family will really enjoy it

I agree with a wonderful virtual tour. It's an excellent job. I am going there this weekend. Thank you for my pre tour 😊

Just found you. Thank you for this. Great music too and love the name of it, the tour! We spent four hours on the lower levels and didn’t make it above the lobby. It was such a beautiful building as well. We will definitely visit again, so much to learn🌳

One of the best virtual tours available! Thank you so much for sharing this.

@JoseOnTour

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Adrianna for the great feedback

You are doing such an amazing job with each video. Truly appreciate your work. 🙌🏾

Great video! You really captured the spirit of this incredibly interesting museum. The music section is one of my favorites.

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Carrie

Can’t wait to visit the museum. Thank you.

I heard start at the bottom level and move upward. Bisa Butler (artist of the quilt at 1:45) also has a piece at the Renwick until spring 2023🙌🏾Thanks for the tour

I will try to check it out this SUMMER 🏝️🌞

watching this video in our class thanks for posting and creating!

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

It is an honor, thank you for sharing

Awesome Job! Thank you for sharing your time and talent in putting this together! I have been to the Museum several times and I still haven't seen everything. I will share with my NYC Girl Scouts this week as a Black History Month activity! They will be motivated to take the trip themselves...

Beautiful tour, thank you Jose!

Love it. Thank you for doing this

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Felicia

Great Episode

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

came from ur reddit comment. Thanks for sharing

Thank you for such a great video! I really enjoyed your presentation of the museum… truly a must-visit in DC

@JoseOnTour

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support

I was just there two months ago. There is a lot to take in. I wish I saw this video before I went up the escalator. 👏

@shyreetaallen2306

Жыл бұрын

Yes you start from the bottom

Lovely museum been a few times

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

It really is a beautiful museum and the history is very detailed

Honestly this is one of the few Smithsonian museums on the national mall I’ve not had the pleasure of visiting. I would like to on my next visit

Nice job 👍🏾 it’s tuff to put this out here while the country is split terribly at this time. Hopefully people learn from this.

Great work. What jazz song is playing in the background

@wowlizzy4039

2 ай бұрын

The song is, Slow Food Jam by Almost Here

Im going with my church tommorow

Thank you to all of the rich, mostly black, and other good people who made this Museum possible.

@AnnetteTaborn

4 ай бұрын

Makes me so proud of what we can do.

@JoseOnTour

4 ай бұрын

@@AnnetteTabornIt was long overdue and I think its in the ideal location by the Washington Monument.

I guess I was a bit premature in my assessment of the Harriett Tubman portrait. The close up reveals that it dosen't look a prehistoric man. It still dosen't look like Harriett, but I guess that's the best that can be done with a quilt. And it's beautiful.

sound track it dope. great information shared my man

@JoseOnTour

10 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Andre

@houstonmuhammad843

4 ай бұрын

The word dope is not cute bro. Your use of it reflects your generations corruption.

Hi, fascinating tour. I plan to visit the museum next weekend. Is there an Emmett Till exhibit? If so, what items are in the exhibit?

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

You will have a great time. There is so much to experience. There is an Emmett Till exhibit that I choose not to cover in this video. Its actually right across the train on the lower level. Emmett's passing is something that impacted me as a kid and out of respect to the audience and the museum I choose to omit it.

@wgcds7jyg897

Жыл бұрын

@@JoseOnTour Understood. Thank you again. Looking forward to visiting the museum.

@theboomerbelle2723

10 ай бұрын

Perhaps you chose to omit the Emmett Till exhibit, however photos of this exhibit are prohibited by the museum.

eKs cel len tey!!!

This is always interesting to see people who self educate themselves about a few topics and video tape themselves at the Smithsonian, it took 18 months of training as a docent of the Smithsonian and to see folks with limited content knowledge of the exhibits and artifacts do a video tour that’s limited on content knowledge

Esau's blessings r up. They had 400 yrs. Done

Is what's under the Vatican included ?

Awesome video! i just learned there is a museum of the bible in D.C! Ever thought about checking it out?

@JoseOnTour

2 жыл бұрын

There are so many Museums in DC it can take weeks to visit them all. I heard about the Bible museum when I visited the beautiful Immaculate Conception church. I’m making another trip in the next couple of weeks and would love to pay a visit.

What is the music at 5:40? Thank you.

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

The Artist name is - Almost Here, Song - Slow Food Jam

@yleetv

Жыл бұрын

@@JoseOnTour Thank you!

I’m interested in knowing where did you do your training and research for this tour of the museum and I’m speaking to dad as a Smithsonian trained docent for the museum?

Why dosen't the Harriett Tubman portrait look anything like Harriett Tubman? It looks like a prehistoric man.

Also a fun fact: The original drafts of the Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson actually had a condemnation of slavery in them but was removed out of fear of losing support from southern states. Jefferson was also highly anti-slavery and tried to end the practice several times. The only reason he didn’t free his slaves personally is because he legally cannot

My sister went already it was a bit painful for her. I’m contemplating? Please give some your feelings below.

@JoseOnTour

2 жыл бұрын

There are segments within the museum where my tears just ran down my face. I could not bring myself to go inside the Emmet Till room. My wife went and said it wasn’t as bad. The final Wing of the museum had a lot of our modern day history from Floyd to Brianna Taylor and it completely wrecked me. There is a lot of fun and great stuff within the museum but also alot of tragic memories. This is the not so fun part about history and it’ll vary per user. But I can tell you, it didn’t matter what background you were from, i saw white, black, hispanic, middle eastern, and asian pretty torn up.

Slavery did not start from a labor shortage in any way. Slavery and the markets for slavery existed in Africa for 1000 years before the arrival of the Portuguese.

@Watkinsstudio

Ай бұрын

@BuddhaWho777 Ditto in Asia.

Blacksmithsonian markiologist

Genesis 15;13&14 Read that then look worldwide and see the Bible speak.

This is sad that this baby was done this way because of his color and to find out years later that this woman lied on him nobody should be brutally murdered in a manner like emmit was

Leaving out the timelines of our AFRAKAN , history. is ridiculous! We built civilizations in Africa and took our show on the road. How pitiful that we left that out of the Musuem for our children to see. What about our scientific and mathematic inventions! Our history did not begin with slavery! The further we go back the further we will progress. So depressing for me! Not chattel slavery there is a difference. Stop it!

I just don't get why is it called African American museum. When those people aren't African they may be black but they are Americans

@JoseOnTour

4 ай бұрын

America loves labels. I am not sure where you are from but in America we often add the nationality to the respected group (Asian American, Italian America, and in my case Latino American or most recently LatinX). I've never seen myself anything other then American but it can all be traced to marketing from corporations. The term African American goes back to a Pennsylvania magazine ad in the 1700s as the earliest none usage of the label.

You didn't give a idea of WHERE you were in the building. This video was almost useless. Just some constructive criticism.

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

No worries, I usually put a GPS mark in my other videos since I am moving around from location to location. Since this was a museum walk and it’s only 3 floors I omitted the GPS markers. I can make an addendum in the info section to break down where everything is. The chapters more or less break out the floors. My work is not so much a traditional KZread travel vlog but more of American History.

Do think African history starts in America The answer is no So why do you African history in America

They went from slave catcher to cop.

Why isn't there a museum, for the millions of white slaves that suffered the same fate?

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

This is true and not a knock to the African American Museum since its the only one that discusses it out of the 35,000 museums in America. White slavery was much more common especially in Europe and yet so little information is available. I think I briefly touched upon it and other nations in this video and in Gettysburg. There is a small panel in the National Museum of American History which is not enough. I don't know why it's not discussed and even the terrible lives of the early immigrants through Ellis Island has slowly been swept under the rug. For others who read this comment here is some background (www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440399808575226?journalCode=fsla20)

@davidbraden1921

Жыл бұрын

@@JoseOnTour thank you for the response and educating me on the matter!

@Jedi_Black

Жыл бұрын

@@JoseOnTour This is not true.. no other ethnic group faced chattel slavery on American soil and went through nearly the amount of dehumanization and bloodshed that African Americans have faced on this soil so yes it’s very disrespectful to say that don’t diminish what our ancestors went through saying stuff like that..

@JoseOnTour

Жыл бұрын

@@Jedi_Black My response wasn't to diminish our history, it was to add some context on museums discussing white slavery. This comment wasn't generalized to American soil but on a global history as I added the statement of slavery in Europe, especially some examples like Irish slavery, or 30% of Ancient Romes population being slaves. On American soil and across the Americas, absolutely. America also had some of the harshest post slavery rules in comparison to other nations. This video is to celebrate the museum but also acknowledge the very detailed panels on slavery and the troubled history of African American culture in America. I don't think enough museums give as great detail as this museum does to flesh out the story of slavery and its impact to the world. This is a good summarized link of reading material on the history of slavery (web.archive.org/web/20140209215003/www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/slav_fact.cfm)

@cratesofjr

Жыл бұрын

@@Jedi_Black agreed on the point about chattel slavery. It seems like a a lot of people who come into these videos and comment are misinformed and believe all forms of slavery were the same. There is only one group who redefined slavery from a civilized practice of servitude to an inhuman practice of brutality. Chattel slavery was created during the Dark Ages of Europe were all sorts of depraved acts were invented and practiced amongst Caucasian people. Then they brought that culture and mindset to Africa unfortunately. Torture museums exists to this day in parts of Europe.

I would never visit these museums Their misleading

Keep the victimisation alive 😂

@Watkinsstudio

Ай бұрын

Keep the trolling alive.

Avoid this museum at all costs!!!!! The employees there are extremely rude it was my very first and last time visiting this place! One of the cafeteria employees yelled at everyone in line to go get in the other lines which also had food but alot of people don't like certain foods, some people don't eat pork some people don't eat sweets some people don't eat chicken ETC and that soul food cafeteria is expensive and over priced and very crowded they charge you $8.00 just for bottled water! The museum is way to crowded to enjoy the exhibits the bottom level is way to dark and to dim to see and read artifacts from the slavery days! It's really not worth visiting period.

@barbarag5387

Ай бұрын

The point of this museum is the depth and wealth of historical information found there. That of which cannot be found anywhere else. I was “filled” with pride for how much our people endured and still persevered.