Put This Jaw-Dropping DC Museum at the Top of Your Bucket List
From SF MOMA to the Tate Modern in London, 2016 has been a good year for museums. But of all the high profile, architecturally significant openings, there is perhaps none more poignant than the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture, which opens this fall in Washington, DC.
Taking its rightful, long-awaited place on the National Mall, the David Adjaye-designed museum strives to document the African American experience. Visitors begin 70 feet underground, revisiting the earliest days of slavery, and then slowly make their way up into the light, past some of the museum’s 40,000 artefacts (donated largely by individuals and private collections) through exhibitions on segregation, cultural and sporting icons, and the disjointed present — the era of Barack Obama and Black Lives Matter.
There are many new museums worth travelling to, but let this be first on your list.
