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National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: Aviation and spaceflight history Chantilly, Virginia: 2003 [14] National Museum of African American History and Culture: African-American history and culture: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 2003, 2016 [note 1] [15] [16] National Museum of African Art: African art: Washington, D.C ...
The passage of the study commission followed the opening of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and National Museum of African American History and Culture (in 2016) and the planning phases for construction of the National Museum of the American Latino and Smithsonian American Women's History Museum. [3]
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.
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]
In 1997, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center established an advisory group headed by Norman Y. Mineta with a mandate to research, deliberate, and then report to Secretary I. Michael Heyman on the Institution's ability to increase and diffuse knowledge about the nation's richly diverse APA communities.
The Smithsonian Institution is a parent company of the Wilson Center. National Cold War Center in Blytheville receives $400K grant from Division of Arkansas Heritage fund
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Lonnie G. Bunch III (born November 18, 1952) is an American educator and historian.Bunch is the fourteenth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the first African American and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian.