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Submitted by arthurt on Mon, 2017-04-17 14:55

SIA Timeline Parent: 
Smithsonian Timeline
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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. In the next year, it is renamed the National Museum of African Art. More - https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_1475.
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Monday, August 13, 1979
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Timeline Event Image Caption: 
Six children, visiting the National Museum of African Art, listen to Amina Dickerson, program director, at the museum. Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder November 1978.