The Anacostia Community Museum will be closed from January 8, 2024-March 22, 2024. We will reopen on Saturday, March 23, 2024 with our next exhibition, A Bold and Beautiful Vision: A Century of Black Arts Education in Washington, DC,1900-2000. We hope you will join us!
Library
The Anacostia Community Museum Library is one of twenty-one specialized libraries in the Smithsonian Libraries system. Formed in 1991 to support the museum's research, exhibitions, and programs, it contains around 8,000 books covering topics in urban studies, cultural studies, African American history and culture, and community museology, among others. The library is open to Smithsonian staff, and members of the public by appointment.