The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture will open to the public Saturday, September 24.

Outside, D.C.’s notorious 90-degree average highs make the the nation’s capital feel like it’s melting.

When it was founded in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) occupied one, then two floors of the War Memorial Veterans Building in the Hayes Valley neighborhood before moving into its purposebuilt, Mario Botta–designed home in nearby SoMa in 1995.