Anacostia Community Museum

Anacostia Community Museum
Anacostia Community Museum is located in Washington, D.C.
Anacostia Community Museum
Location within Washington, D.C.
Established1967
LocationWashington, D.C.
Coordinates38°51′25″N 76°58′37″W / 38.856854°N 76.976888°W / 38.856854; -76.976888
TypeCommunity museum
Visitors38,963 (2008)[1]
DirectorMelanie Adams
Public transit access      Anacostia
WebsiteOfficial website

The Anacostia Community Museum (known colloquially as the ACM) 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.[2] 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.[3]

  1. ^ Trescott, Jacqueline (15 November 2009). "A look at Anacostia Community Museum exhibit 'The African Presence in Mexico'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bass was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Museum Library Anacostia". 2012.