Results for "Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Anacostia Studies Branch"
- Historic Pictures
Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opened on September 15, 1967, in the historic Carver Theater in Anacostia, Washington, DC, as a “store-front museum” to reach underserved communities. In 1987, the museum relocated to a new building at 1901 Fort Place SE, Washington, DC. In 2006, it was renamed the Anacostia Community Museum. History of the Anacostia Community MuseumView
Celebrating Kwanzaa at the Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: December 5, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.
- SI History Chronology
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum Opens
- Date: September 15, 1967
Opening Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1967
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Children at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: c. 1970
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Opening of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: September 15, 1967
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Workshops at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1968 August 1968
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
- Blog Post
What’s in a Name? The Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: June 16, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening
- Date: September 15, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.
Countdown to Opening of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: September 1967
- Creator: Kinard, John 1936-1989
- Creator: Kinard, John 1936-1989
- Document
Anacostia Neighborhood Museums Changes Name to Anacostia Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives
Exterior View of Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Date: 1969 February 13, 1969
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Photographic Services Division
