Maison de la Négritude, Slavery and human rights museum in Champagney, France

The Maison de la Négritude et des Droits de l'Homme occupies a pale beige building with two red-tiled pitched roofs at 24 Grande Rue in Champagney. Brick cross shapes decorate the right facade, and a white hanging sign bears the museum's name. Behind a metal fence, a central arched doorway with glass doors is flanked by planters; an arched window and door sit below a wall inscription.

Champagney was one of the few French village communities to condemn slavery: article 29 of its 1789 cahier de doléances, the Vœu de Champagney, demanded abolition. Residents reportedly heard of the trade from Jacques-Antoine Priqueler, a bodyguard of Louis XVI on leave in his native village. The museum opened in 1971 in the former collège on the initiative of René Simonin, sponsored by Léopold Sédar Senghor, then president of Senegal.

The museum takes its name from the 1789 "Vœu de Champagney", article 29 of the village's cahier de doléances, which condemned Black slavery and demanded its abolition. Residents are said to have learned of the trade from Jacques-Antoine Priqueler, a bodyguard of Louis XVI on leave in his native village; the only Black figure they knew was King Balthazar in the church's Adoration of the Magi painting.

The museum is at 24 Grande Rue, in the centre of Champagney. A 50 m² extension added in 2023–2024 houses cloakrooms, toilets, storage and a multi-purpose room used for temporary exhibitions and school groups. The three exhibition rooms are visited in sequence, with the ship's tween-deck reproduction in the central space of one of them.

The museum belongs to the "route des abolitions de l'esclavage", a network created in 2004 with five sites across eastern France. Its 1995 inauguration was attended by Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, curator of the Maison des Esclaves on Gorée Island, and Aimé Césaire became honorary president in 2007.