Children enjoy helping keep the corn, squash and tomatoes in the museum garden healthy by releasing thousands of ladybugs to eat plant pests
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MUSEUM: Native advice shapes high-tech displays at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center
Input from Alaska Native advisers guides how 600 precious objects loaned by the Smithsonian are experienced by visitors—including descendents of their makers— at a landmark exhibition
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Before it opened, founders of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian heard from Native peoples that one of its most important roles would be to teach all children the true history of the Americas.
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Mitsitam Cafe shares the flavor, originally sipped with chilies by the Mayans, with a tasty recipes
Read the rest of this entry »PEOPLE: Mary G. Ross blazed a trail in the sky as a woman engineer in the space race
Her bequest will propel the museum’s future educational journeys
Read the rest of this entry »Museum: Seeds of understanding accompany interns into wider fields of work
Whether lawyers, curators or cultural activists, past conservation interns say their perspective carries a permanent imprint of their museum experience
Read the rest of this entry »Exhibition: “A Song for the Horse Nation” gallops into museum and onto the
The new exhibition explores the unique position of the horse in historic and contemporary Native American culture
Read the rest of this entry »PHOTOGRAPHY: Museum ‘painted with light’ for unique portrait
By the glow of 800 flashlights, the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian poses for a magical nighttime photo
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Senators honored at gala for role in founding the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989
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Anne Gunnison’s Mellon Foundation project is to protect the plastic materials in a colorful mobile by Dunne-za Nation artist Brian Jungen.
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