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Related: About this forumObama to speak at African American history museum’s groundbreaking
President Obama will speak at the official groundbreaking next week for the Smithsonian's new African American history museum in Washington, museum officials announced.
The National Museum of African American History and Culture will be situated on the National Mall and is expected to be completed by 2015 at an estimated price cost of $500 million, half of which is expected to be paid by the government.
Obama is expected to be joined at the Feb. 22 ceremony by former First Lady Laura Bush and by actress and director Phylicia Rashad.
The museum will document the life, art, history and culture of African-Americans. Work has already begun on the site, which is near the Washington Monument.
The fiscal 2013 federal budget proposed by the president this week calls for $857 million for the Smithsonian, including $85 million to continue construction on the museum.
Architect David Adjaye is the lead designer on the project, according to the museum. The architectural team consists of four firms --Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates, Davis Brody Bond and SmithGroup.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/02/smithsonian-african-american-museum-obama-groundbreaking.html
bigtree
(86,008 posts)$75 million to begin building the National Museum of African American History and Culture . . .
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/entertainment/2011/dec/21/smithsonian-budget-increase-targets-black-history--ar-1559241/
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)bigtree
(86,008 posts). . . pretty good article . . . kinda hyping a controversy with smaller museums. They can always press the government to include them in some sort of partnership endeavor to elevate their profile; probably even increase their visitors online and on-site with partnership promotions.
Number23
(24,544 posts)and could not understand why there seemed to be some "competition" issues between this and other museums.
I personally believe that every city in every state could have an AA museum and we would still only know half of the story of the contribution and struggles that blacks have endured in this country.
bigtree
(86,008 posts)"It was on this ground long ago that lives were once traded, where hundreds of thousands once marched for jobs and for freedom," Obama said. "It was here that the pillars of democracy were built often by black hands."
read more: http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_20017586
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