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Members of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington

  • Smithsonian American Art MuseumThe Smithsonian Institution was established by an act of Congress in 1846. That law called for a gallery of art to be included within the new organization.
  • Smithsonian InstitutionOn the 10th of August 1846, President James K. Polk signed a piece of legislation that created the Smithsonian Institution as a trust instrumentality of the…
  • National Air and Space MuseumOn the 12th of August 1946, President Harry S. Truman signed an act of Congress establishing the National Air Museum. This new institution inherited a…
  • Kennedy CenterThe National Cultural Center Act of 1958 authorized the creation of a national cultural center in Washington, D.C. President Dwight D.
  • Folger Shakespeare LibraryHenry Clay Folger began collecting Shakespeareana in 1889 with a single purchase of a 1685 Fourth Folio. He and his wife Emily Jordan Folger searched for a…