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National Museum of the American Indian


1 Bowling Green | at the foot of Broadway

Financial District | Manhattan

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Contact  212-514-3700 | National Museum of the American Indian

Hours 

Monday thru Wednesday 10:00A to 5:00P
Thursday 10:00A to 8:00P
Friday thru Sunday 10:00A to 5:00P
Closed Christmas Day

Extras

Gift Shop / Book Store

Admission  Free

Highlights

 

The world's largest and finest collection of Native American artifacts grew out of the collection of George Gustave Heye who, later an investment banker, worked as an electrical engineer in Arizona during the first part of the 20th Century. Heye collected obsessively, traveling the American West and Central and South America on his search expeditions. He moved his collection to Audobon Terrace at 155th Street in 1922. Crippled by the Crash of '29, the Museum was in dire straights for many years. New York City politics and changing administrations stifled many attempts at financial rescue and relocation and the Museum finally merged with the Smithsonian in 1989. The historic New York Custom House, renamed the Alexander Hamilton Custom House, is the current repository of the Museum's extensive collection

The breadth and depth of the collection is almost unimaginable. This is not a jumble of trinkets, but includes pieces from Northern Eskimos, Northwest Coast Indians, Plains tribes, Indians of the Southwest, Central America, the Caribbean and South American indigenous peoples as far as Tierra del Fuego. The Museum's collection contains more than 1 million pieces, ranging from pre-historic Clovis spear points to contemporary Native American prints. Other highlights include a superb collection of Katchina dolls, Central American textiles, gold and jade work, as well as Sitting Bull's drum and Geronimo's hat

Exhibitions listed by order of closing date

 

May 6 2006 thru September 24 2006

Virgil Ortiz La Renaissance Indigene

Virgil Ortiz's works are influenced by cochiti, Pueblo folk art figures that caricatured circus performers traveling through the territories in the late 19th century. This exhibition includes nine of his pottery figures, plus couture designs by the artist, two produced in collaboration with Donna Karan

May 6 2006 thru September 24 2006

Will Wilson Auto Immune Response

In this large, complex multimedia installation, seven large-scale photographs surround a post-apocalyptic version of a traditional Navajo house, and describe a future traveler's experiences of a culture that has been affected by contemporary society and technology

November 5 2005 thru May 30 2007

Born of Clay

Ceramics from the National Museum of the American Indian

301 clay pieces 5,000 years of Native American ceramic traditions ranging from eastern North America to the Andes

Things change quickly in NYC. Be sure to contact the museum or society for changes to schedules, admission fees, restrictions on children, strollers, backpacks, etc.

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