🌟 Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum is open welcoming guests inside to view new exhibition on food insecurity [SP]

Protesters march down Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE during the 2017 Grocery Walk to demand greater investment in food access programs and healthy food retail options. To highlight the lack of grocery options in Wards 7 and 8, over 500 people marched the two-mile journey between Historic Anacostia and Ward 8’s only grocery store.

Credit: Brian Oh/Courtesy of DC Greens

After almost 17 months of closure because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum reopened its doors Friday, Aug. 6, with new visitation guidelines and days and hours of operation and the in-gallery exhibition "Food for the People: Eating and Activism in Greater Washington.” The gallery show joins and powerfully expands on food-equity themes introduced in the outdoor exhibition that has been on view since mid-April 2021.

The museum is welcoming visitors from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. daily, Tuesday through Saturday, for self-guided tours only, and reservations are requested for groups larger than six.

The full exhibition treatment of the topic, outside and in-gallery, is on view until Sept. 17, 2022.

Museum staff and all visitors ages 2 and older are required to wear face coverings indoors, and persons who are not feeling well should stay home.

For more details visit, at https://anacostia.si.edu/Visit/VisitingTips.