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The National Museum of African Art is the Smithsonian Institution's African art museum, located on the National Mall of the United States capital.Its collections include 9,000 works of traditional and contemporary African art from both Sub-Saharan and North Africa, 300,000 photographs, and 50,000 library volumes.
The Smithsonian Institution Building (also known as "The Castle") was completed in 1855 to house an art gallery, a library, a chemical laboratory, lecture halls, museum galleries, and offices. [3] During this time the Smithsonian was a learning institution concerned mainly with enhancing science and less interested in being a museum.
Warren Murray Robbins (September 4, 1923 – December 4, 2008) was an American art collector, whose collection of African art led to the formation of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution. Robbins was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1923, to Jewish immigrants from Ukraine.
As part of the 35 th annual Savannah Black Heritage Festival, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture teams up with the Savannah African Art Museum in teaching the ...
Eleven years later, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery opened in a new, joint, underground museum between the Freer Gallery and the Smithsonian Castle. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] [ 53 ] Reuse of another old building came in 1993 with the opening of the National Postal Museum in the 1904 former City Post Office building, a ...
Ethnic – African American: National museum devoted to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. Opened September 24, 2016. [5] National Museum of African Art: Smithsonian Institution: Art African art and culture, includes paintings, musical instruments, sculpture, jewelry, regalia, textiles, pottery
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Since its opening in 2016, the largest African American museum in the United States is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The previous record holder was the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan. [7]