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National Museum of the American Indian

Explore Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere inside a curving limestone building on the National Mall, with a Native foods cafe.

Fourth St and Independence Ave SW · Washington, DC

About National Museum of the American Indian

This Smithsonian museum on the National Mall presents the cultures and histories of Indigenous peoples across the Western Hemisphere. The five-story curvilinear building is clad in golden Kasota limestone meant to evoke rock shaped by wind and water, and you enter facing east into a 120-foot-high atrium. Exhibitions include Americans and Nation to Nation, about treaties with the United States. The Mitsitam cafe serves regional Native foods, and the National Native American Veterans Memorial stands on the grounds.

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