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for storage and exhibit assembly space immediately behind the Frederick Douglass House.  The Museum has spent some $400,000 over the years on physical improvements to these various structures, including about $300,000 to modernize the Frederick Douglass House for museum use.  The Museum's mortgage liability totals about $82,000 for six structures.  The entire physical plant purchased originally for $457,000 is not estimated to be worth well over $1 million. 

Mr. Robbins is the Museum's director, relying on the policy guidance of a Board of Trustees.  In addition, the Museum has a "National Council," chaired by Senator Hubert Humphrey, which offers advice and support. 

The Museum's library consists of some 5,000 items.  Pictorial materials include the important Eliot Elisofon Collection, consisting of more than 100,000 color slides, black and white prints and negatives, motion picture films and the like primarily concerned with Africa, which were willed to the Museum.  The staff of the Museum numbers about 33 full and part time members, against a projected ideal level of 40.

The Museum of African Art has become noted for its highly professional programs of exhibition, education, and extended service to the public.  Each year hundreds of school groups from the Washington metropolitan area are given conducted tours of the Museum; staff lectures