SAVE THE DATE: LECTURE The Challenge of Building a National Museum Tuesday, December 8, 4:00 pm Yale Art Gallery

SAVE THE DATE: LECTURE The Challenge of Building a National Museum Tuesday, December 8, 4:00 pm Yale Art Gallery Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C., explores the history and challenges of creating the museum, including its building on the National Mall, the development of conceptual frameworks, public expectations, and the contextual terrain of race. Bunch discusses the strategies used to successfully navigate these challenges and describes the current status and future of the museum. Cosponsored by the Yale University Franke Program in Science and the Humanities; the Yale-Smithsonian Partnership for Research and Public Engagement; the Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition; the Yale University Art Gallery; and the Public Humanities at Yale. Learn More >