Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter at the National Museum of American History

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History acquired the Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter, a central artifact from the 1960 sit-in protests, and has exhibited it as part of its civil-rights holdings. The counter is interpreted in the museum’s galleries to illustrate the sit-in movement and its role in the broader struggle for desegregation. The museum conserves and rotates such objects within exhibitions and educational programming.