The African Art Museum was cool for many ways. One was that it was one that we never visited before. Another way was because it had a 14 foot mask that weighed around 30 pounds. The last way was because it was connected to three other museums. I will start by saying how we chanced upon it. We were walking in the Smithsonian garden and then we just went into it. The first thing is security. They look at your bags and that stuff. Then you see this staircase curving downward and there is this pool at the bottom. There is also a mask that is stretched across two stories. On the top level there is not much. On the bottom, there is the sweetgrass baskets and those stuff. There also fancy gold and stone African chiefs or gods. A guide told us that you were supposed to wear the mask and dance around with it!