Aug
13

Today in Smithsonian History: August 13, 1979

Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art with, from left, Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson. (Photo by Richard Hofmeister, as featured in the Torch, March 1978)

Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale, wife of the Vice President, playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art with, from left, Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson. (Photo by Richard Hofmeister, as featured in the Torch, March 1978)

August 13, 1979 The Museum of African Art, established in 1964 as a private museum by Warren Robbins, becomes a unit of the Smithsonian Institution. It will be renamed the National Museum of African Art.

Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives

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