Groundbreaking of the New Anacostia Museum

Summary

Ceremonial groundbreaking at 1901 Fort Place, S.E., Washington, D.C., in May 1985, for the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (AM), renamed the Anacostia Museum in 1987. In 1995 the Museum was renamed Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture. After the Smithsonian launched its new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Museum was renamed Anacostia Community Museum in 2006. Left to right: Museum Historian Louise Hutchinson (AM), Robert Stanton (National Park Service), John Blake (chair of AM board), Ann King (former president of Fort Stanton Citizens Association[FSCA]), James Mayo (ANM exhibit supervisor), Addie Cook (FSCA president), AM Director John Kinard and Secretary Robert McCormick Adams. The museum opened in the Carver Theater building in 1967.

Subject

• Adams, Robert McCormick 1926-2018
• Blake, John
• Hutchinson, Louise Daniel
• Kinard, John 1936-1989
• King, Ann
• Mayo, James (Jim)
• Stanton, Robert
• Cook, Addie
• Anacostia Community Museum
• Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in the Torch, July 1985

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Folder: July 1985

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1985

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Museum buildings
• Secretariats
• Groundbreaking
• Secretaries
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• New Museums
• Employees
• Museums
• African Americans
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Museum directors

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Event
• Group

ID Number

95-1212

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Group; Medium: Photographic print

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