Anacostia Community Museum
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Loading ...The Anacostia Community Museum was established in 1967 under the name The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. It served first as a Smithsonian outreach museum situated in one of the Washington, D.C.’s largely African American neighborhoods and later evolved into a museum documenting, preserving and interpreting African American history from local and community history perspectives. In 2006, the name of the institution was changed to the Anacostia Community Museum to reflect the expansion from ethnic themes and issues to broader cultural issues that resonate within communities.
Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian
The museum documents and collects objects and archival material in three areas. The neighborhood collections focus primarily on artifacts relevant to the history and community life of Washington neighborhoods east of the Anacostia River. The arts collections—primarily folk art—explore national and international themes of community such as creativity and nonconformity. The legacy collection is composed of significant African American historical and cultural artifacts and materials
Hours:
The Anacostia Community Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except Dec. 25.
Admission: Free
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Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place S.E.
Washington
DC
20020
United States
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