Decolonising the Museum: the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC
Author(s)
Smith, Claire
Abstract
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), the Smithsonian Institution’s new facility on the National Mall in Washington DC, challenges the very notion of what constitutes a museum. Probably the most theoretically informed museum in North America, this is no shrine to the past: it is a museum that claims both past and present to shape a decolonized future for Indigenous populations.
