for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> each week americ"american h t tv"'s "american artifacts" takes viewers to archives, museums and historic sites around the country. the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture will open a new building off the national mall in 2015. "american history tv" spoke to lonnie bunch, the new director of the facility. we spoke to him in a washington, d.c., suburb where he shows us the artifacts that will be on display in the new building. >> right now we are in the offices of the national museum of the african-american history and culture. this is where my staff and i will be until the museum opens in 2015. 6 years ago i started with a staff of two, no place to know for sure where the museum was going to be, no sense of what the building would look like. and today we have a wonderful architect who's created this wonderful model that i'm standing next to. this is the model that gives a sense of what the building wil

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