Anacostia Community Museum

Last month the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum closed on short notice for seven months of renovations. Now, its curators are disassembling its locally focused main exhibition into six parts and installing them in libraries around…

The museum will temporarily shut its doors this month, but will continue its programming across D.C.

The Anacostia Community Museum will shut down on March 15 for seven months of renovations. Museum staff gave visitors less than three weeks notice of the closure.

For the first time in human history, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, a shift that is resulting in new challenges. The Smithsonian Institution’s Anacostia Community Museum, with its 50th anniversary exhibition, A…

The nation’s capital is among several American cities where rapid re-development has borne ills such as the destabilization of long-standing communities of color, and increased poverty.