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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.
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 museums have not yet been created and the Smithsonian has two years to select the museums’ locations on or near the ...
Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum Monroe: Louisiana: 1994 [129] Northwest African American Museum: Seattle: Washington: 2008 [130] Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum: Baton Rouge: Louisiana: 2001 [131] Old Dillard Museum: Fort Lauderdale: Florida: 1995 [132] Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum ...
The director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture will become the new leader of all Smithsonian museums. Lonnie Bunch was named the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian, the ...
The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture has gone virtual. The critically acclaimed museum in Washington D.C., The post Smithsonian African American museum content ...
Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther suit will be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture The post Smithsonian African American Museum to launch ...
[2] [5] He was the museum's first director, remaining in the position until 1983 when he was named founding director emeritus and a Smithsonian senior scholar, and replaced as director by Sylvia H. Williams. [3] The museum was relocated to the National Mall in 1987 and renamed the National Museum of African Art. By the time of his death in 2008 ...
In the 1980s, African-American museums such as the DuSable endured the controversy of whether negative aspects of the cultural history should be memorialized. [19] In the 1990s, the African-American genre of museum began to flourish despite financial difficulties. [18] In 2016, the museum formed an affiliation with the Smithsonian Institution. [20]