New York
National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center
The First Americans
One Bowling Green
The George Heye Center
New York, NY 10004
Nearest Train: 4, 5 at Bowling Green; 1, 9 at South Ferry; N, R at Whitehall St
Phone: +1 212 514 3700
Fax: +1 212 514 3800
Website | EmailThe 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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