Washington, United States

Anacostia Community Museum

Founded in 1967 as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, this Smithsonian unit was the first federally funded community museum in the United States. Located in the historic Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., it documents the experiences and contributions of African American communities and other groups across the urban Upper South. Through exhibitions, oral histories, and community-based research, the museum addresses themes of migration, civil rights, environmental justice, and local activism, treating the neighborhood itself as both subject and collaborator.

The Anacostia Community Museum is a community museum in the Anacostia neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is one of twenty museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution and was the first federally funded community museum in the United States. The museum, founded in 1967, was created with the intention to bring aspects of the Smithsonian museums, located on the National Mall, to the Anacostia neighborhood, with the hope that community members from the neighborhood would visit the main Smithsonian museums. It became federally funded in 1970 and focuses on the community in and around Anacostia in its exhibitions. This museum also houses a library. Source: Wikipedia