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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.
“Those photos plus $1 million were gifted some 20 years later to the Smithsonian and became funding seeds for the National Museum of African American History and Culture and our Hometown ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
A vast photo archive of two iconic African American publications documenting 20th-century Black life has been transferred to the Smithsonian The post Smithsonian African American museum, Getty ...
Jacquelyn Days was born in Florida but grew up in New Rochelle, New York. [2] She attained her undergraduate degree from Sarah Lawrence College. [1] After earning a master's degree from the University of Chicago, she attained a doctorate in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 1981.
The American Institute of Architects calls the Baird Auditorium the museum's "greatest interior space." [ 5 ] According to architectural scholar Dr. John Ochsendorf , the Baird Auditorium's "daring geometry" in tile construction by the Guastavino company "spans 90 feet (27 meters) with a remarkable shallow dome in acoustical tile, and could ...