Smithsonian - National Museum of the American Indian

The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the George Gustav Heye Center, features exhibitions, dance and music performances, children’s workshops, family and school programs, film festivals and video screenings.

Cass Gilbert, who designed this former US Custom House, also designed the nearby Woolworth Building, which was the world's tallest skyscraper when it opened in 1913.

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The National Museum of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. Established by an act of Congress in 1989, the museum works in collaboration with the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere to protect...

This impressive collection represents the Smithsonian Institution. The collection spans more than 10,000 years of Native heritage, gathered a century ago mainly by New York banking millionaire George Gustav Heye. About 70% of the collection is dedicated to the Natives of North America and Hawaii; the rest represents the cultures of Mexico and Central and South America. There’s a wealth of...

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These treasures--many acquired early in the 20th century by the renowned collector George Heye--were moved from Audubon Terrace in upper Manhattan in 1989 when the Smithsonian...

The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum of living cultures dedicated to advancing knowledge and understanding... of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere.www.AmericanIndian.si.edu Social media policy: See More