Black history takes its place on Washington’s Mall

Art will be the first thing visitors see when they enter the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Curators at the museum, which opens to the public on 24 September, could have welcomed guests with any number of showstopping artefacts that tell the story of how African-Americans have shaped US history. The collection includes a biplane used to train the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American military aviators; a segregation-era Southern railway