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National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center, New York City, NY

National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Centernull
  • Address One Bowling Green
    The George Heye Center
    New York, NY 10004
    United States
  • Phone number+1 212 514 3700
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  • Neighborhood : Wall Street/Financial District
    http://americanindian.si.edu/

    Local History & Culture, General History

  • Mon to Wed from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM,Thu from 10:00 AM to 08:00 PM,Fri to Sun from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM

The George Gustav Heye Center is the New York branch of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. The Heye Center occupies the first and second floors of the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The museum hosts a selection of changing exhibitions that present and reaffirm the ways, languages, literature, history, and art of Native Americans. The museum also features dance and music performances, children's workshops, family and school programs, and film festivals and video screenings that present the diversity of the Native peoples of the Americas and the strength of their cultures from the earliest times to the present. Located at the beginning of Broadway, next to Battery Park. Admission is free.

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yelp Reviews ( 1 Review see all ) Top

casper c.

(Rating: 5.0) 

by casper c. on August 18, 2009

Awesome building---who knew??? Great columns and marble everywhere--Free too!!

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 by  GPP_NY  on  2008-06-19

More than a million artifacts spanning 10,000 years of Native American culture and history are housed inside this beautiful Beaux Arts building...

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CitySearch Reviews ( 3 Reviews ) Top

The most comprehensive collection of Native American arts and cultural artifacts in the world.

 by  Contributor  on  2003-08-14

HoldingsThese treasures--many acquired early in the 20th century by the renowned collector George Heye--were moved from Audubon Terrace in

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Could be much better

 by  Tamra318  on  2002-12-09

Back in the 1970's the NMAI (in its original location on 155th Street) had abundant artifact representations from ALL nations. Now, since these...

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The Wow in Pow Wow

 by  DrewPisarra_Citysearch  on  2002-05-20

One of the most impressive attributes of this museum is the architecture of the building in which it is housed. The grand rotunda, with its lar...

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