The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum is commemorating 50 years of service to communities in the Washington, D.C., area with the yearlong celebration “Your Community. Your Story.” The ...

The museum was created 52 years ago. It’s more than four miles from most of the other Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. That was the goal from the start, a community-based institution that ...

Choose a Smithsonian museum, research center, or program below to support your favorite part of the world’s most comprehensive museum and research institution. The Anacostia Community Museum ...

A group of around 30 people danced on the hot asphalt of the Anacostia Community Museum parking lot Wednesday afternoon, defying the near-90-degree temperature, as the jazz band DuPont Brass performed ...

The Anacostia Community Museum is just reopening its doors after a seven-month, $4.5 million improvement project amplifies the 52-year-old museum's welcoming outreach to the nearby neighborhoods and ...

Speaking to a packed gymnasium in the Van Zandt-Guinn Elementary School Oct. 28, Juneteenth Museum CEO Jarred Howard had a question for residents of the Historic Southside: “Why do all the beautiful ...

After being closed for most of the pandemic, the Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum reopened Wednesday. The museum first opened at its original location at the old Carver Theater in 1967 with a ...