Exhibitions

Bridging the Americas: Community and Belonging from Panama to Washington, D.C.

April 13, 2015 – June 12, 2018

Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, photo by Harold Dorwin

Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, DC

Program Room

See on Map

Using images and narratives, this exhibition presents the various ways in which Zonians and Panamanians in the D.C. metropolitan area think about home and belonging in and in-between Panama and Washington, D.C. From passage during the California Gold Rush to the 100th anniversary of the Panama Canal in 2014, the United States and Panama have a long and intertwined history. The exhibition shows the formal ties between the two nations but focuses on the human stories and migrations that underscore the connection.