Blog: NMAI is working on a 'whole new look' for exhibits in DC

Friday, February 17, 2012  

"If you’re especially enamored of, say, the beaded wool Klukwan Chilkat octopus bag displayed at the National Museum of the American Indian, you may want to visit it again before 2014. By that date — the museum’s 10th anniversary — several of the permanent exhibits will be taken down, in the first steps toward replacing all of them, said Director Kevin Gover in a phone interview this week.

He expects the new exhibits to be installed by 2016 or 2017.

The current exhibits “are starting to feel a little stale,” Gover said. He called the new plans “major replacements.”

“It will be a whole new look. We will not do the individual tribal pods” in any of the galleries, he said. The new focus “will be about stories and narrative, and we’ll pick communities based on how we’ll pick this broad narrative we want to achieve.”"

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The Style Blog: Indian Museum plans major changes in exhibits (The Washington Post 2/16)