Jim Vance announced to viewers in May that he was battling cancer.

Just a few weeks after Jim Vance expressed his excitement for being featured on a mural at D.C.’s iconic Ben’s Chili Bowl restaurant, the Smithsonian has announced that the late broadcaster will be immortalized in the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Lonnie Bunch, the director of the museum, told NBC Washington that Vance’s story will be told to the more than 8,000 visitors who view the museum’s exhibits each day.

Vance, who passed away on Saturday after a brief battle with cancer, started at the NBC station in 1969. He began co-anchoring in 1972, one of the first African Americans in such a prominent role in a major market newscast.

“He symbolized possibility—he symbolized that it was really important that America was changing and his presence was a symbol of that change,” said Bunch, who was the last person to be interviewed by Vance.

The museum, which focuses on everything from the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the presidency of Barack Obama, also pays homage to the nation’s capitol once known as Chocolate City. And Vance’s addition will further that narrative.

“He had a commitment to making this city better because there’s no doubt he loved his craft, and boy did he love this city,” Bunch said.

Because Vance “did his homework,” Bunch said it would be nice for the exhibit to include some of Vance’s note pads—perhaps from Bunch’s own interview. He would also like visitors to get a sense of how Vance moved, thought, engaged with the camera and public, and even how he laughed.

“People trusted Jim Vance, and they trusted him in a way that they knew that he would be true, that he would be candid, that he would be professional, and more importantly, that he would be human,” Bunch said. “You always felt that Jim Vance was a guy on corner that you could talk to.”

He didn’t say when the exhibit would be open.