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The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) has one of the most extensive collections of Native American arts and artifacts in the world—approximately 266,000 catalog records (825,000 items) representing over 12,000 years of history and more than 1,200 indigenous cultures throughout the Americas.
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Accessing the Object Collections ESPAÑOL. Research The NMAI...
- History of the Collections
At the University Museum and the American Museum of Natural...
- Collections Search
The museum’s collection includes more than 800,000 objects...
- Archive Center
In addition, the Archive Center holds the records of the...
- Object Collections
Object Collections. The NMAI object collections (266,000...
- Conservation
Conservation activities include documentation, treatment,...
- Significance of The Collections
The collection included more than 40,000 volumes on the...
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Native American collections associated with the Smithsonian...
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The museum’s collection includes more than 800,000 objects and photographs and more than 500,000 digitized images, films, and other media documenting Native communities, events, and organizations. Find more information on the museum’s object collections and archival collections on this site.
equity and social justice for the Native peoples of the Western Hemisphere through education, inspiration, and empowerment.
The National Museum of the American Indian cares for one of the world’s most expansive collections of Native objects, photographs, and media, covering the entire Western Hemisphere from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego.
The National Museum of the American Indian is a museum in the United States devoted to the culture of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution group of museums and research centers.
The photographs in the Collection are rare glimpses of Indians in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show; they exhibit Käsebier's renowned artistic, sensitive, and captivating style of pictoralism. The collection was donated to the Museum by Käsebier’s granddaughter Mina Turner, in March 1969.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is an institution 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.
