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Shouldn't there be something about the severe criticism of the DC museum's romantic platitudinous incoherence? http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E4D71539F932A1575AC0A9629C8B63&scp=5&sq=National%20Museum%20of%20the%20American%20Indian&st=cse Blima3000 (talk) 14:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

New York City[edit]

If I recall correctly, the NMAI was established in New York many years ago and the NMAI was the only part of the Smithsonian outside of DC. Or am I wrong? (Where is the tilde on this darn machine? Paul, in Saudi (talk) 23:29, 4 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The National Museum of the American Indian's George Gustav Heye Center is in New York. So is the Cooper-Hewitt museum. The National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is in Virginia. 192.250.34.161 (talk) 15:20, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Suicide in the Museum in November 2013[edit]

Should there be a note of this news story somewhere on the page, perhaps? "This was the first apparent death of this nature at the Museum since it opened its doors on September 21, 2004 in Washington." http://nativenewsonline.net/currents/man-plunges-death-museum-american-indian-saturday-afternoon/ http://navajotimes.com/news/2014/0114/010214nmai.php#.VNJBrSwsp_c There were many news stories about this when it happened. I'm not sure if it's appropriate for a wikipedia article on the subject or not. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.79.241.252 (talk) 16:00, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't seem to be a particularly notable incident. BMK (talk) 16:43, 4 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Education assignment: ANTH 420 Museum Anthropology[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 10 January 2023 and 2 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Harrowinglife (article contribs).

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Heye Center date[edit]

Added the date of opening, October 1994, to the introduction. Harrowinglife (talk) 01:07, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

4/25/2023: Moved Directors into History and made its own subsection, moved Veterans Memorial into Locations, renamed Collection to Collection History, created Exhibit section and moved Nation to Nation there as a subsection, edited Reception, replaced Geronimo photo with a photo of the interior of the museum in 2015, moved Reception to the bottom of the article. Harrowinglife (talk) 01:19, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]