Today we head to a corner of Washington not well known to the average tourist, but with a lot of history, the Anacostia neighborhood, and the Anacostia Museum, a museum of the Smithsonian Institution. We recommend you exit Metro at the Anacostia Metro Station, and then take the W2 or W3 Bus toward the Southeast Community Hospital, getting off at the museum.

We travel to the Anacostia neighborhood to visit the Smithsonian's only community Museum, the Anacostia Museum. While waiting for the bus, Julie talks about the history of the Anacostia neighborhood. (2:31)

We Play Gentle Whisper by Washington, DC R&B Artist Ebony Jackson, which comes to us from The Podsafe Music Network. (6:56)

We ride to the museum and describe the architecture, visiting a sculpture out front, Real Justice - The Spirit of Thurgood Marshall, an Ancestral Guardian Sculpture by Allen Uzikee Nelson. (11:20)

We enter the museum and visit an exhibit about African American Paper Dolls. (11:20)

We move onto an exhibit highlighting high school bands in the District. (15:20)

We play The Washington Post March, written by Washingtonian John Philip Sousa performed by the US Army Band from their album American Spirit. (18:33)

The final section we see photographs by DC Photographer Steven Cummings - an exhibit entitled DC Undercover. (21:09)

We return to the Metro, and Julie talks a little about the history of the Anacostia Museum before signing off. (24:31)

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Our Opening Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans, and our closing theme this week is Chicago Breakdown by Louis Armstrong's Hot 7. Logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.

Check out our brief Anacostia Museum Photo Album, to see some of the sights we talk about today. Unfortunately the Museum limits photography, so we have a relatively short album today.