The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, DC 20020
Main office: 202-633-4820
The hours of operation for the museum are 10am to 5pm daily except December 25 when the museum closes in observance of the Christmas holiday.Connecting Communities through Language
August 9, 2010 - March 27, 2011
Word, Shout, Song documents the historical journey made by people from Africa, their language, and their music, to the Americas. Through words, music, and story, Lorenzo Dow Turner discovered in the 1930s that the Gullah people of Georgia and South Carolina still possessed parts of the culture and language of their enslaved ancestors, which had long been believed lost. Click here for more information
