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Smithsonian opens virtual African American museum - Yahoo! News

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“The dream to build it really had started and stopped and stalled,” [Lonnie] Bunch [the museum’s first director] said in a telephone interview. “A lot of people
really questioned ‘Is this going to happen?’ This is one of the ways we can make it real.”

“He will use the site — http://nmaahc.si.edu/ — to promote museum exhibitions that will travel around the country over the next few years, solicit advice on planning the museum and seek donations to help raise money toward construction of the $500 million building on the Washington mall.

“The museum’s first project to explore using the Web to add to its collection is a program called the Memory Book, which asks users to write in or submit digital audio recordings with recollections of significant experiences in their lives.”

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