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September 15, 1967

The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opens in Anacostia, a primarily African American neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C., with a celebration including an 84-piece band. This museum, an “experimental community museum,” which is located in a renovated theater, is operated in cooperation with the local community. Its first six exhibits include a Mercury space capsule; a reproduction of an 1890 Anacostia store; a little theater; shoebox collections on many natural-science subjects; skeletons that could be disassembled; and a small zoo.

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Posted: 15 September 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.