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Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Located southeast of the Anacostia River, the Neighborhood Museum was developed to provide opportunities and resources to Anacostia community groups and individuals, and museum experience relevant to local history and needs.  A specially equipped exhibits laboratory, established with Bicentennial and Smithsonian support, provides facilities for a continuing exhibition program which includes special and traveling exhibits viewed in Washington and throughout the country.  Research is conducted by a small staff in support of education and exhibition programs and includes an oral history project.  An education program sponsors conferences and workshop activities for teachers and produces audio-visual and other education aids for classroom use.

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[[underline]] LOCATION | SIZE | ACQUISITION DATE | ACQUISITION TYPE | ACQUISITION COST [[/underline]]

Anacostia, Washington, D.C. | | | |

Fort Stanton Park (National Park Service) | 1.4 acres | 1973 | Permit | None
 | 10,000 sq.ft. "Exhibits Lab" | 1976 | Construction | $407,000

2405 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave., S.E. | 5,600 sq.ft. (exhibition and administration) | 1967 | Leased | $ 16,000/yr

2500 Martin Luther* King, Jr. Ave., S.E. | 7,400 sq.ft. (education and research) | 1974 | Leased | $ 5,000/yr

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* Lease of 2500 Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue will be terminated about April, 1, 1980, and program and staff will be consolidated at Fort Stanton Park.  Space preparation costs are estimated at $21,000.