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Each year more than 50 exhibitions travel to hundreds of cities and towns all across the United States. [ 1 ] Authorization to create two additional museums, the National Museum of the American Latino and the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum , passed congress in 2020 as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 .
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
The museum opened in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology.It was one of the last structures designed by the renowned architectural firm McKim Mead & White.In 1980, the museum was renamed the National Museum of American History to represent its mission of the collection, care, study, and interpretation of objects that reflect the experience of the American people.
An exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Museums not only collect and preserve historic and cultural material, their basic purpose is educational or aesthetic. The first African American museum was the College Museum in Hampton, Virginia, established in 1868. [2]
Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock; Naranjo Museum of Natural History, Lufkin; Odessa Meteor Crater, Odessa; Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum, Canyon; Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas; Texas Forestry Museum, Lufkin; Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, Athens; Texas Memorial Museum, Austin; Waco Mammoth National Monument, Waco
The Museum of the Rockies is a Smithsonian affiliate museum, and had long promised to find a T. rex for the Smithsonian to display. [ 75 ] Due to the 2013 federal government shutdown , the fossil did not arrive in Washington, D.C. Smithsonian officials said it remained in storage in Montana, and would not arrive at the Smithsonian until late ...
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM; formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art made in the United States from the colonial period to the present.
The National Museum of Industrial History, abbreviated NMIH, housed in the former facility of Bethlehem Steel in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, [1] is a museum affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution that seeks to preserve, educate, and display the industrial history of the nation. [2]