A Day At The Multi-Million Dollar Government Museum With No VisitorsThe Daily Caller ^ | October 1, 2025 | Luke RosiakPosted on by TwotoneWASHINGTON—In the parking lot of the Smithsonian’s smallest museum, 18 of 29 spots were full. Ten years after the massive African American History and Culture Museum supplanted it, there’s little reason for the Anacostia Community Museum to spend millions to welcome a handful of visitors a day. The Trump administration’s 2026 budget proposes zeroing out funding for the Anacostia Museum, saying its exhibits should be moved to the larger one. In 1989, the Anacostia museum’s then-director, John Kinard, said just that, casting doubt that we’d ever see the larger museum. According to the Smithsonian’s official statistics, in 2019, after the larger museum was in full swing, the Anacostia museum saw only 8,034 visitors, or five per day.