smithsonian:
On Lonnie Bunch’s first day of on the job as director of @nmaahc, he had to break into the doors of his own office.
Soon he’ll help open the doors to the newest member of the Smithsonian family, a museum 101 years in the making. He writes:
“The Smithsonian does something no other museum complex can: opens different portals for the public to enter the American experience, be it through the Smithsonian American Art Museum, or the National Air and Space Museum, or the National Museum of the American Indian. The portal we’re opening will allow for a more complicated—and more complete—understanding of this country.”
Read his full account, from collecting the museum’s first object to diving for a lost slave ship off Africa, in this piece in @smithsonianmag.