There are few museums which capture the soul. The National Museum of African American History and Culture is one. All Smithsonian museums do a good job, but this one is done exquisitely. Juxtaposed on the Washington DC Mall, surrounded by old white marble structures the museum rises up from the corner of the park on which the Washington Monument lords over DC. You begin by descending into the bowels of the museum, to a claustrophobic set of rooms assimilating (as best as possible, without the fear and pain, of course) the hold of a slaver’s ship as you learn about…
