National Museum of the American Indian

Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC, 20560
202-633-1000

URL : http://www.nmai.si.edu

overview : The collections of the former Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, form the cornerstone of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian. The National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall opens September 21, 2004. - Assembled at the turn of the twentieth century by wealthy New Yorker George Gustav Heye (1874–1957), the collections are distinguished by thousands of masterworks, including intricate wood and stone carvings and masks from the Northwest Coast of North America

collections : Collections are housed in .. The George Gustav Heye Center in New York City, Cultural Resources Center in Maryland, and the new primary location NMAI on the National Mall

topics : native, American, history, ethnic, tribal, arts, and, crafts, anthropology, artifacts, prehistoric, paleolithic