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Summary

The relocation of the National Museum of the American Indian collection from the museum's Research Branch in the Bronx to the Cultural Resources Center in Suitland, Maryland, began with a pilot move project in December 1996. The pilot move project relocated 17,000 objects to a holding place near Suitland, tested strategies fro the five-year move project, and cleared a staging area in the cramped and antiquated Bronx facility.

Subject

  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
  • Cultural Resources Center
  • National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Research Branch

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annals of the Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Washington, D.C.: National Collections Program, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2000, pg. 21.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

December 1996

Topic

Moving

Place

  • Suitland (Md.)
  • Bronx (New York, N.Y.)

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