Museums and the Politics of Race
Lonnie Bunch, Director
National Museum of African American History and Culture
Director Lonnie Bunch talks about the making of the
National Museum of African American History and Culture, established in
December 16, 2003, becoming the nineteenth museum of the Smithsonian
Institution. The museum will be the only national museum devoted
exclusively to the documentation of African American life, art, history
and culture. The museum's collections will cover topics as varied as
slavery, post–Civil War Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the
Civil Rights movement. The museum will use African American history and
culture as a lens to examine what it means to be an American.
Thursday, April 12, 2007
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