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		B1 INDEX
		City Museum
		7th and I Sts NW
		Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
		Greater New Hope Baptist Church
		819-821 7th St
		Goethe-Institut Washington
		7th and H Sts.
		Calvary Baptist Church

	THE CITY MUSEUM

The former Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square is becoming Washington’s new City Museum and will open in mid-May 2003. A project of the Historical Society of Washington, DC, the City Museum is based on a wonderfully novel concept--that the whole city of Washington is, in fact, a museum, but that most visitors (and most residents) don't know enough about the city's many treasures, large and small. The City Museum will encourage people to use the new facility as a starting point and go out in all directions to explore neighborhoods, house museums, and special collections of all kinds. Instead of a place where all the city's "contents" are served up in showcases, the new museum will be like a website with links to the entire city and all its ethnic and social groups.

The building that will house the Museum is a much-loved place for Washingtonians, who came here by foot, roller-skates, bicycle, car, or bus before the building of the Martin Luther King Library . Because the Carnegie Library at Mt. Vernon Square was one of the few public facilities that was never segregated by race, it has a special place in the hearts of the entire population as a building where everyone was welcome.

For the purposes of our "Virtual Tour," this struck us as a good place to group new sites that we would like to present, but that are off the local downtown map. Thus, you will find links on the right side of this page to various places in Washington that are important to German-American history, but are not actually in the immediate neighborhood of the City Museum.