via wjla: When Lonnie Bunch started working on the Smithsonian’s first black museum, he had no building and one employee. The Smithsonian Institution rewarded the founding director of the wildly popular museum in May by putting him in charge of all 19 of its museums, making Bunch the 14th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. CLICK […]
National Museum of African American History and Culture construction site. (Michael Barnes/Smithsonian Institution, NMAAHC) Lonnie Bunch can see the finish line. The founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture promised Thursday that the 19th Smithsonian museum will open in 18 months with a series of 11 exhibitions focused on history, […]
