January
Aug 13 Museum of African Art Becomes Bureau of SI
Year:
1979
Month:
august
Day:
13
Date:
Mon, 1979-08-13
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The Museum of African Art, established in 1964 as a private museum at the initiative of Warren Robbins, becomes a bureau of the Smithsonian Institution. In the next year it will be renamed the National Museum of African Art.