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National Museum of the American Indian

Washington, DC

202-633-1000

New York, NY

212-668-6624

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

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The National Museum of the American Indian is the sixteenth museum of the Smithsonian Institution. It is the first national museum dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans. It comprises three facilities, each designed following consultations between museum staff and Native peoples.

(above: The Museum's Washingon, D.C. location on the National Mall opened in 2004. Photo: Mark Hazeltine)

For locations of the facilities, admission fees and hours, please see the Museum's websie.

PBSmaintains an online archive of individual segments from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Several segments covering the visual arts are available by video search in the Arts & Entertainment category by keyword "Jeffrey Brown". Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports:

November 25, 2004 on the Smithsonian's newly-opened National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.
September 21, 2004 on the opening of National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian TV, no lnger online, was for a while a central index of multimedia content and a multimedia hosting service of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Smithsonian TV streamed these programs on its website:

On May 6 and 7, 2005 The National Museum of the American Indian presented the two-day symposium Native Modernism. featuring the art of George Morrison and Allan Houser. The 45 minute Keynote Address:Native Modernism, by Mr. Truman Lowe (Ho-Chunk), National Museum of the American Indian was presented online.
On March 16, 2005 The National Museum of the American Indian hosted a one hour lecture titled "Two Grey Hills Navajo Tapestry Traditions," presented by master weavers Barbara Teller Ornelas and Lynda Teller Pete. The video incuded a movie shown during the lecture.

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