She was joined by her parents, brothers and grandmother — three generations clustered around a plastic folding table at the Anacostia Community Museum on Sunday afternoon for an arts-and-crafts ...

The sounds of Chuck Brown and others who’ve played D.C.’s official music were blasting in Anacostia on Wednesday as The Go-Go Museum and Café officially opened. The 8,000-foot museum ...

On her beloved typewriters, the literary legend mapped out a course for the future of the genre Stephen Kearse This year, the Institution collected everything from the stunning shell of an extinct ...

or program below to support your favorite part of the world’s most comprehensive museum and research institution. The Anacostia Community Museum challenges perceptions, broadens perspectives, and ...

Backyard Band front man Anwar “Big G” Glover gripped his hand around the microphone and shouted a roll call of District neighborhoods in harmony with the rhythmic go-go beats of his group.

After more than a decade of planning, fundraising, and building, the new museum is open in Anacostia and celebrating go-go, D ...

Melanie A. Adams is the Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth Director of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. She has more than 25 years of community engagement experience in museums and ...

Should you happen to step through the front doors of the new Go-Go Museum in historical Anacostia having no idea what go-go music actually is, turn to your right, swap smiles with the many-times ...

Inside a black brick building in Anacostia is the story of the funk beats and calls and responses that molded the District’s ...

The Go-Go Museum & Café is the official site for the appreciation and study of go-go music, history and culture from its headquarters in the historic Anacostia neighborhood of Washington ...

Alcione M. Amos, currently a Museum Curator at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C., is originally from Brazil and has lived and worked in the United States for five ...