Guided Tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
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National Museum of African American History and Culture
1400 Constitution Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20560Description
Guided Tour of the Smithsonian’s Newest Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture
The museum has 12 exhibitions which require more than a two-hour visit. Because we have a limited amount of time, the tour will focus on the History and Culture galleries.
Tour registrants should arrive at the museum no later than 8:00 a.m. We will meet at the group entrance which is located on the Madison Street side of the building. Registered participants will not be able to enter once the tour begins.
Directions from SEM:
- Meet volunteer guide at 7:30 am in the Omni Shoreham Lobby, OR
- Metro from Omni Shoreham, walk about 3 min to Woodley Park-Zoo Metro, take Red Silver Spring train to Metro Center (8 min travel time), walk 12 min to 1400 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. About 30 min travel time.
(Image credit: By Prabal.tiwari1993 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51125190)
Organized by
Terry Liu (NEA) and Jonathan Dueck (GWU) are co-chairs of the Local Arrangements Committee for the Society for Ethnomusicology's fall 2016 meeting in Washington, DC, which is hosted by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and The George Washington University. 2016 Local Arrangements Committee members include: Nate Gailey-Schiltz (Volunteer co-ordinator; UMCP), Larry Witzleben (UMCP), Vin Novara (UMCP), Kendra Salois (American University), Harold Anderson (Goucher College & Bowie State University), Judith Gray (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), Nancy Groce (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress), Benjamin Harbert (Georgetown University), Eileen Hayes (Towson University), Anne Rasmussen (College of William and Mary), Gregory Robinson (George Mason University), Dan Sheehy (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Atesh Sonneborn (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Huib Schippers (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings), Liz Tolbert (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University), Dawn Avery (Montgomery College), and Luvenia George.