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Anacostia Community Museum Receives $5 Million Gift From Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum has announced a $5 million gift from Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth to establish an endowment supporting the museum’s director position. Going forward ...
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Anacostia Community Museum Announces Lineup for Its Juneteenth Celebration

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum is bringing back its iconic Juneteenth festival with a daylong celebration from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, June 19. Visitors will experience a full day ...
Washington City Paper

Anacostia Community Museum Celebrates Earth Day With Environmental Justice Work

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum works to create constantly innovative programming to support the Ward 7 and 8 communities it has served since its 1967 founding. This Saturday, April 22, ...
Washington City Paper

Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum Will Host Daylong Juneteenth Festival

The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum is bringing back its iconic Juneteenth Festival with a daylong outdoors celebration for all ages from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, June 19. The Juneteenth ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum’s Message to Students: ‘You, Too, Can Be a Changemaker’

A new field trip offering spotlights local contemporary history, promotes self-efficacy and urges secondary students to imagine a more equitable future Andrea Jones In a 2022 Tufts University poll, 76 ...
The Washington Post

Jubilee: MLK, Obama and Overcoming at the Anacostia Community Museum

Dating back to slavery and black churches, “We Shall Overcome” has become “sort of a national anthem — a song that aligns with civil rights,” said Robert Hall, associate director of education at the ...
The Washington Post

Families celebrate Kwanzaa, and heritage, at the Anacostia Community Museum

Inside a room gradually filling with the smell of craft glue, Ava Mack considered what color glitter to decorate her creation with. Gold, green, red or silver? The 6-year-old decided she did not, in ...
AOL

Anacostia Community Museum Reopens May 30 with a New Exhibit

Timed to the country’s 250th anniversary, the Anacostia Community Museum is reopening on May 30 with a new exhibition, “We Make History,” that explores how communities create and preserve historical ...
NBC Washington

Anacostia Community Museum in jeopardy due to Trump budget proposal

Leaders of the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum said the Trump administration didn't include any federal funding for the site in its budget proposal for next year, putting the museum's future in ...
Washington Examiner

Anacostia Museum to examine DC immigrant community

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum is revisiting an exhibit from 20 years ago about black immigrants in Washington and notions of race and ethnicity amid changes in ...
Rolling Out

Anacostia Museum

ACM traces its founding to the civil rights era—a period that advanced some of the most enduring social change in our country’s history. Originally established as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum in ...