The UHM College of Education 2018 Carl and Alice Daeufer Education Lecture Series Presents: Educating a Nation: The Challenge of Building a National Museum. A Public Talk by Dr. Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
Lonnie G. Bunch III is the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. The museum opened in 2016 on a five-acre site on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., adjacent to the Washington Monument.
Under Bunch’s leadership, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened seven exhibitions in its gallery located in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, including “Through the African American Lens: Selections from the Permanent Collection.” In addition, the museum’s traveling exhibition, “Changing America,” will be exhibited at 50 venues across the country through 2018. Bunch also established the program “Save Our African American Treasures” featuring daylong workshops where participants work with conservation specialists and historians to learn to identify and preserve items of historical value.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC