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The Cultural Resources Center, a research and collections facility, is located in Suitland, Maryland. The foundations for the present collections were first assembled in the former Museum of the American Indian in New York City, which was established in 1916, and which became part of the Smithsonian in 1989.
The large, box-like first floor was largely eliminated. Added to the entrance on Constitution Avenue were a pond, garden, and bridge, so that visitors would have to "cross over the water" like slaves did when they came to America. [55] The Smithsonian estimated in February 2012 that museum would to open in 2015. [56]
The 82,000 square foot museum is located two blocks from Baltimore's Inner Harbor at 830 E. Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. Opened in 2005, [ 1 ] the museum is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution , and was named after Reginald F. Lewis , the first African American to build a billion-dollar company, TLC Beatrice International Holdings.
The Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC), formerly the Maryland Historical Society (MdHS), [6] founded on March 1, 1844, [1] is the oldest cultural institution in the U.S. state of Maryland. The organization "collects, preserves, and interprets objects and materials reflecting Maryland's diverse heritage".
In the 2010 census, about 20,000 Maryland residents, or 0.4% of the state, self-reported American Indian as their only race. More than 50,000 people in Maryland self-identified as being at least part American Indian, constituting 1.0% of the total state population. [13]
Kevin Young (born November 8, 1970) [1] [2] is an American poet and the director of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2021.
The first chair of the committee, Porter, also recruited Juanita Mitchell, [5] the first black woman lawyer in Maryland [6] to serve with the other women on the committee. [5] The first exhibit of collected materials was hosted in December 1939 in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with Beard and the World Center for Women's Archives.
The National Archives building at College Park held its groundbreaking in 1989 and opened in 1994 on a parcel of campus donated by the University of Maryland, [1] mostly to alleviate space constraints at the aged National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] By that time, the original facility had become incapable of holding further numbers of records transferred in from various ...