MOCHA - Museo de Culturas y Herencias Americanas

MOCHA (el Museo de Culturas y Herencias Americanas/the Museum of Cultures and Heritages of America) is located in the historic Dupont Circle museum and gallery corridor in the nation’s capital, Washington DC. We are occupying the lower level in a 5-story brick Victorian building with 12-foot- high ceilings, on a quiet leafy street, in front of the Phillips Collection and the Cosmos Club, kitty-cor

ner from Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s DC house, in the immediate vicinity of 4 small historic museums, 1 block from Embassy Row, convenient to restaurants and shops, and 2 blocks from the Dupont Metro station. MOCHA art exhibitions will include Permanent Exhibits from our vast art collection (please see our separate art collection description and artists listing), monthly or bi-monthly Temporary Exhibits (art from other museums and by visiting artists), Touring Exhibitions, Annual Student Exhibits and Members’ Shows. For example: Migrantes Hasta la Libertad (Immigrants to Freedom) is planned to open at MOCHA in the fall, 2015 and projected to travel in 2016 to seven U.S. Homenaje al-Andalus (Homage to al-Andalus), a celebration of the music, poetry, art, architecture, science, medicine and spiritual wealth of Muslim, Sephardi Jewish and Christian Spain (c. 826-1520 a.d.)