Year in Review 2016: Smithsonian’s African-American museum opens to the world

http://africandiasporaleaders.com/author/ The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s opening was anything but small. Every step from conception to delivery led to a monumental milestone for the Smithsonian Institution, the Washington region and the United States — for the people behind its debut, the people it features and the people who would come. What now stands at the corner of Constitution Avenue and 14th Street NW is the product of a century of sporadic discussions, 13 years of work, 52 months of construction and $540 million. The 400,000-square-foot structure on 5 acres adjacent to the Washington Monument houses an important history — and represents another important piece of that history.
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