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
Description: Framing the West is a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It features 120 of the extraordinary photographs Timothy O’Sullivan made for the King and Wheeler Surveys, two of the most important geological surveys of the western United States. The exhibition demonstrates not only the ability of the camera to capture the details of place, but the talent of
Description: Scholar, curator, and photographer, Dr. Deborah Willis, won a 2000 MacArthur 'genius' fellowship while working to advocate for the founding of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. #Groundbreaker