Museum Details


Name:National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution (The George Gustav Heye Center)
Street Address:Alexander Hamilton, 1 Bowling Green
City:New York
State:New York
Country:United States
Zipcode:10004
Telephone:212-514-3700
Fax:212-514-3800
Email:NIN@si.edu
Website:http://www.nmai.si.edu
Staff Contacts:Dir: W. Richard West; Dep Dir: Douglas E. Evelyn; Asst Dir: Charlotte Heth; Chief Cur: Mary Jane Lenz; Collections: NMAIcollections@si.edu; Cultural Resources Center: 4220 Silver Rd, Suitland, MD 20746, 301-238-6624; Coll Mgr: Pat Nietfeld 301-238-6624 x6402
Quality of Online Info:Provides information on branches of the museum; Includes link to NMAI Move website; Overview of collection
Size:
Focus:Jade; Collections still in the process of being moved from NMAl Research Branch in Bronx, NY, to the Cultural Resource Center in Suitland, MD
Source:Grube, Nikolai, ed. Maya: Divine Kings of the Rain Forest. Cologne: Konemann, 2000. 455. Schulze, Marco and Boris Eggers, eds. Museums of the World. 11th Rev. and Enl. ed. Volume 2. Handbook of International Documentation and Information Series. Volume 16. Muchen: K.G. Saur, 2004. 776. U of Utah Libraries. http://www.nmai.si.edu