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Published on Nov 29, 2015
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The anacostia community museum also known as the A.C.M. was originally described as an "experimental store-front museum by the smithsonian institution in 1966.
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Originally the A.C.M. was intended for the museum to serve as an outreach opportunity to bring more African Americans to the national mall.
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Throughout its history, the museums exhibits have reflected the events of the community and Washington D.C..
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The Arthur m. Sackler gallery is joined with other museums to make the national museum of Asian art.
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The prime minister of Japan visited the gallery in 1979 and announced that he would donate $1,000,000.
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The complex is 95% underground and covers 115,000 square feet. It was made with the goal to connect various underground buildings.
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The arts and industries museum is the second oldest museum. Originally called the national museum. It was built to provide the smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections.
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The museum contained 80,000 square feet of exhibit space with specially made mahogany exhibit cases.
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In 2004 the museum was closed for renovation. The future and deteriorating condition led led it to be named as one of Americas most endangered places
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It is the only museum in America devoted to historical and contemporary design.
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The museums original collection focused on architecture, sculpture and many types of those two things.
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The museum education center is funded by target. It educate children k-12 about design.
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The freer houses have over 26,000 objects. The collection varies from many different cultures and countries.
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The construction of the gallery began in 1916 and was completed in 1921. There was such a delay because of WW1
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The freer museum served as the Smithsonian's first museum dedicated to fine arts.
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In the late 1930s the us congress mandated an art museum for the national mall, because at the time the only venue for visual art was the national gallery of art which focused on only Dutch, French, and Italian art.
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In 1974 the museum opens with three floors of painting galleries a fountain plaza for sculpture and a sculpture garden.
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In December of 1991 the hishhorn museum closed but reopened in 1993 for renovations.
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The national air and space museum holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft.
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After the establishment of the museum, there was no one building that could hold all of the objects. So for a long time many of the missiles, planes, and spacecraft were stored in many different places.
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Controversy erupted in 1994 over a proposed commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of japan. The center piece of the ceremony would be the airplane that dropped the bomb.
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In 1915 African American veterans met in d.c. For a reunion and a parade. Frustrated with the discrimination they still faced they formed a committee and built monuments for black achievements
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On February 9, 2005, with the site committee still debating president bush endorsed putting the museum on the national mall
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The museum will be the deepest museum in the mall. The builders dug 80 ft. to lay foundations.
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This museum was founded in 1964 an was privately funded. The museum showcased traditional African art and had educational classes about African art and culture.
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When the national museum of African art was first transferred to the smithsonian, the collection consisted of approximately 8,000 pieces.
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According to the museum, "The Smithsonian's national museum of African art fosters the discovery and appreciation of the visual arts of Africa, the cradle of humanity.
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The exhibits in the East Wing of the first floor feature transportation and technology; they include America on the Move and Lighting a Revolution. The John Bull locomotive is the signature artifact.
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Located in the center of the second floor is the original Star Spangled Banner Flag which inspired Francis Scott Key's poem. The newly conserved flag, the centerpiece of the renovated museum, is displayed in a climate-controlled room at the heart of the museum.
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The lower level of the museum displays Taking America to Lunch, which celebrates the history of American lunch boxes. The museum's food court, the Stars and Stripes Café, and ride simulators are also located here.
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The permanent collection of the Heye Center is called Infinity of Nations, and is designed to show the scope of the Smithsonian's collection. Organized by geographic regions, the exhibit displays over 700 items and crosses the line from ethnology to art.
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The George Gustav Heye Center is a branch of the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The Center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and artifacts by and about Native Americans.
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It is a designated National Historic Landmark and a New York City landmark. The center’s exhibition and public access areas total about 20,000 square feet. The Heye Center offers a range of exhibitions, film and video screenings, school group programs and living culture presentations throughout the year.
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The National Museum of the American Indian is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native Americans of the Western Hemisphere. It has three facilities.
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Following controversy over Native leaders' discovery that the Smithsonian Institution held more than 12,000-18,000 Indian remains, mostly in storage, the museum was established by an act of Congress in 1989, Public Law 101-185 - the National Museum of the American Indian Act, as "a living memorial to Native Americans and their traditions".
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The site on the National Mall opened in September 2004. Fifteen years in the making, it is the first national museum in the country dedicated exclusively to Native Americans.
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The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. With free admission and open doors 364 days a year, it is the most visited natural history museum in the world. and most visited museum (of any type) in North America.
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The museum's collections total over 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts. With 7.4 million visitors in 2009, it is the most visited of all of the Smithsonian museums that year and is also home to about 185 professional natural history scientists — the largest group of scientists dedicated to the study of natural and cultural history in the world.
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The United States National Museum was founded in 1846 as part of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum was initially housed in the Smithsonian Institution Building, which is better known today as the Smithsonian Castle. A formal exhibit hall opened in 1858.
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The National Portrait Gallery is an historic art museum located at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Founded in 1962 and opened to the public in 1968, it is part of the Smithsonian Institution.
The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum (with which it shares the building) are the eponym for the Gallery Place Washington Metro station, located across the intersection of F and 7th Streets NW.
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The first portrait gallery in the United States was Charles Willson Peale's "American Pantheon" (also known as "Peale's Collection of Portraits of American Patriots"), established in 1796. It closed after two years. In 1859, the National Portrait Gallery in London opened, but few Americans took notice
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The National Postal Museum, located opposite Union Station in Washington, D.C., USA, was established through joint agreement between the United States Postal Service and the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 1993.
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The museum houses many interactive displays about the history of the United States Postal Service and of mail service around the world. Also on display is a vast collection of stamps.
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Since 2002 the museum has presented the Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award every two years. In September 2009, the museum received a $8 million gift from investment firm founder William H. Gross to help finance the expansion of the museum.
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The Renwick Gallery is a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, located in Washington, D.C., and focuses on American craft and decorative arts from the 19th to the 21st century.
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It is housed in a National Historic Landmark building that was begun in 1859 on Pennsylvania Avenue and originally housed the Corcoran Gallery of Art (now one block from the White House and across the street from the Old Executive Office Building). When it was built in 1859, it was known, at the time, as the American Louvre."
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The Renwick Gallery building was originally built to be Washington, D.C.'s first art museum and to house William Wilson Corcoran's collection of American and European art.
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly called American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C. which has one of the world's largest and most inclusive collections of art, from the colonial period to the present, made in the United States.
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The museum provides electronic resources to schools and the public through its national education program, including Artful Connections, real-time video conference tours.
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The museum maintains seven online research databases with more than 500,000 records, including the Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture that document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide.
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The Smithsonian Castle, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. behind the National Museum of African Art and the Sackler Gallery, houses the Smithsonian Institution's administrative offices and information center.
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The building is constructed of Seneca red sandstone in the faux Norman style (a 12th-century combination of late Romanesque and early Gothic motifs) and is nicknamed the Castle. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
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The Castle was the first Smithsonian building, designed by architect James Renwick, Jr., whose other works include St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City and the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, also in Washington D.C. The building committee held a nationwide design competition in 1846 and selected Renwick's design by a unanimous vote.
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The National Zoological Park, commonly known as the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States, and as part of the Smithsonian Institution, does not charge admission. Founded in 1889, its mission is to provide leadership in animal care, science, education, sustainability, and visitor experience.
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Altogether, the two facilities contain 2,000 animals of 400 different species. About one-fifth of them are endangered or threatened.
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The National Zoo was created by an Act of Congress in 1889 for "the advancement of science and the instruction and recreation of the people." In 1890 it became a part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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