National Museum of the American Indian

The National Museum of the American Indian, part of the Smithsonian, is devoted to the cultures of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and became the first national museum in the United States dedicated exclusively to Native Americans when its Washington building opened in 2004. Its origins lie in George Gustav Heye’s vast collection and the 1989 law championed by Senator Daniel Inouye that created the museum and addressed repatriation of culturally significant materials. Shaped through consultation with Native communities and Native leadership, the institution includes sites in Washington, New York, and Maryland, cares for more than 800,000 objects, and presents exhibitions, programs, and memorial spaces.

Washington, District of Columbia · United States