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American artifacts visits archives and historic places. The National Museum of African American history and culture opened in september of 2016. Malled on the National Near the washington monument, the museum has quickly become one of the most visited in the nations capital, with capacity crowds almost every day. Next, we visit the museum to tour the history galleries which began three stories underground. Welcome to the slavery and freedom exhibition. My name is mary elliott and i am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the exhibition, which is one of three in the history gallery at the museum. We have three exhibitions in this gallery and those exhibitions cover 15thcentury africa and europe all the way through today. Some of the themes we cover in the exhibi ....
History galleries, which begins three stories underground. Mary my name is mary elliott and i am a Museum Specialist and cocurator of the slavery exhibition, which is one of three exhibitions in the history gallery. We have three exhibitions in this gallery and those 15thcenturyover africa and europe all the way to today. Some of the themes we cover include holding onto humanity under some of the most inhumane conditions. We look at the harsh realities of slavery and freedom, the resistance and survival of a people. We look at africans and African Americans shaped the world as well as a nation. We look at how they shaped the landscape. That means socially, politically, economically, geographically, as well as culturally and intellectually. What is important for people to thesetand is we look at stories as human stories. They are told through the africanamerican lens. Th ....