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The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum documents and interprets the effect of historical and contemporary social and cultural issues on communities. Established in 1967 as the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, it served first as a Smithsonian outreach museum situated in one of the District of Columbia's largely African American neighborhoods and later evolved into a museum documenting, preserving and interpreting African American history from local and community history perspectives.