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A PLACE FOR ALL Introducing the PEOPLE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Smithsonian Photo by Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC Institution The journey to establish this museum began a century ago. It is a place where all can gather to remember, reflect, and embrace America’s story: a place for all people. Souvenir coin bank for the National Negro Memorial, In September 2016, the newest Smithsonian ca. 1926 (top view) This coin bank depicts a proposed museum will open in Washington, D.C. The national African American museum journey to establish this museum began a century that was approved by Congress in 1929 but never built. ago, with a call for a national memorial to honor Gift from the Ball-Haagland family in memory of Robert Ball the contributions of African American Civil War veterans. After decades of efforts by private citizens, organizations, and members of Congress, federal legislation was passed in 2003 to create the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Since then, thousands of artifacts have been collected to fill the inspiring new building that has risen on the National Mall. This poster exhibit celebrates the fulfillment of this long-held dream. Through its exhibitions and programs, the museum provides a lens for understanding American history through the “The Time Has Come: Report to the President and to the Congress,” African American experience. It is a place where National Museum of African all can gather to remember, reflect, and embrace American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential America’s story: a place for all people. Commission, April 2, 2003 Gift of Judge Robert Leon Wilkins A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. “We’vE A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African Got to American History and Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with tELl tHE the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. unvaRnISHED The Hughes Family near Alexandria, Virginia, 1861-62 This detail from a larger photograph depicts two enslaved women, sisters-in-law Lucinda Hughes and Frances Hughes, and several of their children: tRutH.” William, Fannie, Mary, Martha, Julia, and Harriet. – John Hope Franklin, American historian and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Powder Horn , 1777 Pvt. Prince Simbo of Connecticut used this powder horn during the Revolutionary War. “FREedom Is nEvER GIven; It IS Won.” —A. Philip Randolph, American labor leader and civil rights activist, 1937 A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture is organized “I bELIEvE by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Smithsonian Exhibition Service, in collaboration with THat THE DanCE Institution the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Revelations, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, 1961 CaME FROM Photography by Jack Mitchell © Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. and Smithsonian Institution. All rights reserved. THE PEOPlE anD THaT It SHOULD ALWayS bE DElIvERED bACk TO THE PEOPLE.” – Alvin Ailey, American choreographer and activist A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling “FREeInG youRsElF Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the museum. Was one tHIng; All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Grand Dame Queenie, 2012 CLaIMIng Amy Sherald (b. 1973), oil on canvas © Amy Sherald oWneRSHIp oF tHat FREED SElF Was anotHeR.” –Toni Morrison, American novelist, from Beloved, 1987 “THE FORM OF THE BUILDING SUGGESTS A VERY UPWARD MOBILITY. THIS IS NOT A STORY ABOUT PAST TRAUMA. IT’S NOT A STORY OF A PEOPLE THAT WERE TAKEN DOWN, BUT ACTUALLY A PEOPLE THAT OVERCAME AND TRANSFORMED AN ENTIRE SUPERPOWER INTO WHAT IT IS TODAY.” –David Adjaye, NMAAHC lead designer The artifacts and images featured on these posters represent a small sampling of what will be on display when the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens its doors on September 24, 2016. They also represent a living history, one that will continue to expand and evolve in the years to come. The museum is located in the historic corridor of Washington, D.C., at a pivotal crossroads to the Lincoln Memorial, the White House, the Washington Monument, the Jefferson Memorial, and the Capitol building. This symbolic location resonates with the museum’s mission of “giving voice to the centrality of the African American experience in American history.” With 13 inaugural exhibitions, changing exhibit galleries, an interactive learning center, a 350-seat theater, and a café, it will be a destination. But this is more than just a museum. It is a celebration of the ascending spirit of a people. The building itself brings to life this spirit; in the intricate patterns of its façade you can see the echoes of the ornamental ironwork made by enslaved and Detail of museum building exterior free African American artisans in the South. The museum’s façade, called the corona, consists of 3,523 bronze- You can sense the rising rhythm of hope in colored cast-aluminum panels the building’s angled silhouette, calling to that form an intricate, gleaming envelope around the building. mind a gesture of arms lifted in praise or triumph. Yes, this is more than a museum. It is a statement; it is a prize; it is a gift to the people of our great nation. A Place for All People: Introducing the National Section of museum Museum of African American History and corona panel Designed by Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Freelon Adjaye Bond/ Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, SmithGroup in collaboration with the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Building photo by Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC “this building National Museum of African American History and Culture building designed by Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup will sing for all of us.” – Lonnie G. Bunch, III, Founding Director, NMAAHC A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in collaboration with the museum. All images and objects from the Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Building photo by Alan Karchmer/NMAAHC.

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