This post is not about what you think it is
As a disclaimer: These photos were taken during a visit in April 2024, so this post may not be representative of these sites today.
One of the worst feelings while traveling is heading to an attraction to start of your activity-packed day and realize that it’s… closed. Which is exactly what happened to us when we attempted to visit the Brooklyn Museum on this bright spring morning. Our unfortunate mishap allowed us to pivot and move up another visit we had pending, however, to the National Museum of the American Indian – New York. Still, the flowers were much too pretty to ignore.
National Museum of the American Indian – New York
Also known as the George Gustav Heye Center, the museum is named after the collector of Native American artefacts, whose artefacts served as the core for the museum when it was founded in 1916.
In 1987, there was a proposal to move the museum to a separate location which would serve its growing collection better. As part of this process, the museum’s collection merged with that of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., though its existing collection was kept separate from Heye’s.
The museum’s current location, the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, was designed by Cass Gilbert and built in 1902-1907 as a headquarter for the Port of New York’s duty collection. It shares the building with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and the New York regional offices of the National Archives.
This dress was designed by Maria Hupfield, and it imitates the Anishinaabe tradition of the jingle dress — traditionally worn during First Nations pow wows — but adapts it to include the names of various Indigenous writers.
The museum’s permanent collection displays over 700 items and covers the entirety of the Western Hemisphere, from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego. It includes objects, photographs, archives, and media.
Gold Colored Fox 