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Growing Community is the longest running program at the Anacostia Community Museum. Launching this summer will be a free youth focused program in August. Photos courtesy the Anacostia Community Museum.

Growing Community is Going for Kids!

by Anacostia Community Museum July 18, 2024July 19, 2024

"Slippery Morning" by Thomas Hunster. Anacostia Community Museum (Photograph by Susanna Raab)

A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, D.C., 1900-2000

by Grant Czubinski, Anacostia Community Museum April 22, 2024April 22, 2024

Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum is located at 1901 Fort Place SE in Washington, D.C.

Things to Do, DMV: Weekend Rundown, Jan. 4-7

by Ra-Jah S. Kelly January 3, 2024January 17, 2024

Della Lowery moved to Washington, DC, from Framingham, Massachusetts in 1950. She advocated for more schools to be built east of the Anacostia River after the population boomed as a result of “urban renewal” in Southwest DC. Photo courtesy of the Lowery family.

Women Describe a Century of Community in Washington, D.C.

by Anacostia Community Museum November 27, 2023November 27, 2023

Members of the museum's education staff gather around a corner of the exhibit that features Ivy City activists' fight to revitalize the neglected Crummell School. (Robert R. Roberts/The Washington Informer)

Three Highlights from ACM’s New ‘To Live and Breathe’ Exhibit

by Kayla Benjamin May 31, 2023August 16, 2023

Nadia Nazar (left) and fellow activists from the youth-led climate justice organization Zero Hour at the 2018 Climate March. (Photo by Conrado Muluc, courtesy Nadia Nazar for Zero Hour)

To Live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington, D.C.

by Anacostia Community Museum May 16, 2023May 17, 2023

Anacostia Community Museum’s street team “The Activators” (from left): Maps Glover, Sol Michelle, Skye Ellis and Brandon “B Doug” Douglas. (Photo by Andrea Jones)

Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum: Activating a Street Corner Near You!

by Andrea Jones, Special to The Informer September 19, 2022September 19, 2022

"Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington" closes Sept. 17. (Courtesy of Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum)

Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum: Celebrating 55 Years of Local Stories

by Melanie A. Adams, PhD, Director, Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum August 18, 2022August 19, 2022

‘Men of Change’ Exhibition to Open at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

by WI Guest Author January 27, 2021December 21, 2021