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The Museum of the American Indian considered options of merging with the Museum of Natural History, accepting a large donation from Ross Perot to be housed in a new museum building to be built in Dallas, or moving to the U.S. Customs House. The Heye Trust included a restriction requiring the collection to be displayed in New York City, and ...
The museum is part of the Smithsonian Institution. The center features contemporary and historical exhibits of art and artifacts by and about Native Americans. The center has its origin in the Museum of the American Indian founded by George Heye in 1916. It became part of the national museum and Smithsonian in 1987.
National Museum of the American Indian: Native American history and art: Washington, D.C. National Mall: 2004 [19] [20] National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center: Native American history and art: New York City Bowling Green: 1994 [19] [21] National Museum of Natural History: Natural history: Washington, D.C. National ...
The National Museum of the American Indian Act (NMAI Act) was enacted on November 28, 1989, as Public Law 101-185. The law established the National Museum of the American Indian as part of the Smithsonian Institution .
The Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in 1922. [8] It closed in 1994, after the collection had been moved in 1989 to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1994 the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian opened in the former Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House near Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
Kevin Gover (born February 16, 1955) is currently the Under Secretary for Museums and Culture at the Smithsonian. He had served from 2007 until January 2021 as the director of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Now retired, she worked for the Smithsonian Institution as the Director of the American Indian program of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. [1] Archambault began working there in 1986. Some of her responsibilities at the museum included preserving and promoting Native American art, culture, and political anthropology.
Walter Richard "Rick" West Jr. (born January 6, 1943) is the president and CEO of the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. [1] He was the founding director of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, [2] retiring from the position in 2007.