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Costume of a masked dancer at the National Museum of the DR Congo. In three public exhibition halls of 6,000 m 2, 12,000 objects can be presented in their cultural context. The majority of the holdings of the Institute of National Museums of Congo (Institut des Musées Nationaux du Congo), however, must be stored in
The National Mall is a landscaped park near the downtown area of Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States.It contains and borders a number of museums of the Smithsonian Institution, art galleries, cultural institutions, and various memorials, sculptures, and statues.
The Cuvette Centrale (French: "Central Basin") is a region of forests and wetlands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Some definitions consider the region to extend into the Republic of the Congo as well. [1] It lies in the center of the Congo Basin, bounded on the west, north and east by the arc of the Congo River.
The Arts and Industries Building is the second oldest (after The Castle) of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Initially named the National Museum, it was built to provide the Smithsonian with its first proper facility for public display of its growing collections. [3]
National Historic Landmarks are normally listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Washington is home to three specifically legislated exceptions to this rule: the White House, the United States Capitol, and the United States Supreme Court Building. All are designated landmarks, but are not on the National Register.
Southwest Federal Center contains the Smithsonian Institution museums along the south side of the Mall—including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Museum of African Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the National Air and Space Museum, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the ...
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To commemorate its 40th anniversary on 11 March 2010, the Institute of National Museums of the Congo inaugurated a capacious, permanent modern exhibition hall at its headquarters. [14] On 25 August, the IMNC inaugurated an open-air museum on the site with funding from the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic ...