The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington was designed by the Freelon Group, Adjaye Associates and Davis Brody Bond, selected in 2009. The Smithsonian Institution is the client. Groundbreaking was on February 22, 2012, and the building was completed in 2016. The infobox lists 2003 as established and 2016 as dedicated.
The article describes an inverted step pyramid with a corona inspired by a Yoruba crown. The facade is bronze-colored coated aluminum scrim, changed from bronze for cost reasons. It has 350,000 square feet and 10 stories. The infobox says five stories are below ground, but the competition brief specified three.
The text gives the collection as 40,000 objects in one place and over 45,000 in another, with about 3,500 on display. Timed-entry tickets were reinstated for weekdays in October 2018, and the article does not confirm the current policy. It gives no hours.
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