We've covered the museums vying for spots as close as they can manage to the National Mall: There's the National Museum of the American People, the National Women's History Museum, and the National Museum of the American Latino, for starters.
But then there are those with smaller ambitions. A handful of passionate foundations just want a [...]

Close readers will remember that I'm a huge fan of the National Museum of the American People, the coalition of some 136 ethnic groups that wants a pan-immigrant museum at Banneker Overlook, at the southern end of L'Enfant Plaza. Today, they rolled out a conceptual design for the museum by Arlington-based MTFA Architects, and explained [...]

The ladies behind the National Womens History Museum have been fighting for 15 years to get an appropriate commemoration of women near the National Mall, and today marked a milestone of sorts: The second introduction of legislation that would authorize the sale of a chunk of land on 11th Street south of Independence Avenue for [...]

National Mall identity politics just got kicked up a notch. The National Women's History Museum, which the House signed off on last year, threw a gala last Tuesday with none other than Meryl Streep, who's pitching in $2 million for the cause. The leaders of the effort, which got rolling in 1996, have set their [...]