A Right to the City explores the history of neighborhood change in the nation’s capital.

Your Community, Your Story highlights some of the museum’s signature projects and demonstrates how ACM’s work helps us understand city life and strengthen community bonds.

This exhibition explores the experiences of Latino migrants and immigrants in four U.S. metro areas: Washington DC, Baltimore, MD; Charlotte, NC; and Raleigh-Durham, NC. Explora las experiencias de migrantes e inmigrantes latinos en Estados Unidos.

This exhibition of nine pieces created by Derek Webster between 1980–1996 is from the Regenia A. Perry Folk Art Collection, part of the Anacostia Community Museum’s folk art collection.

From 1963 to 1965, the Spiral, a diverse group of African American artists, met weekly to discuss the role of artists in the Civil Rights Movement and the relationship of aesthetics and political expression.

Between 1963 and 1975, national and local change transformed the nation’s capital, Washington, DC. On display are photos, paintings, recordings, period clothing, and artifacts, such as a pen used to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

This exhibition highlights major themes that link the U.S. and Panama and the makings of community.

This exhibit looks at the life and legacy of the Plummer family in Prince Georges County, Maryland in the 19th century. Adam Francis Plummer (1819 - December 13, 1905), enslaved on George Calvert’s Riversdale plantation, began to keep a diary in 1841 and maintained it for over sixty years.

This exhibition examines the social and spatial impact of the Civil War on Washington, DC, and the resulting dramatic changes in social mores, and in the size and ethnic composition of the city’s population.

Learn about a new form of bead art and how Ubuhle women transform the beadwork surface into a contemporary work of art.

Through the lens of four fancy quilts, explore layers of family history, artistic traditions, and entrepreneurship that enrich the fabric of an African American community in rural Mississippi.

Explore how urban waterways, such as the Anacostia River, can be both barriers and economic resources for the community.

See installations created by artist Steven Cumming and multimedia production studio CreativeJunkfood that are influenced by cultural expression found in schools, churches, community organizations, and other venues in the public sphere.

See BK Adams's imaginary landscapes that draw upon his surroundings, using exuberant color, toys, and objects scavenged from everyday life.

Learn how the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina have retained traces of their West African culture and language that their enslaved ancestors brought to the Americas.

Look at the history, culture, and art of Afro-Mexicans, beginning in the colonial era and continuing to present day in this traveling exhibition.

Through images of captured moments from throughout the years, look at the history, traditional music, and regional folklore of African American holidays and celebrations around the country from the 18th century to the present.

This exhibition provides an overview of the popularity of African American baseball teams played on segregated fields in Washington, DC, from Reconstruction to the second half of the 20th century.

After the Civil War, baseball became America’s pastime. Largely integrated, it was a unifying force in a nation grappling with a divided racial history. Yet, in the nation’s capital, the game remained segregated until 1944.

Continuity and change are underlying themes in the history of communities east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC, from Native American settlements to the present.