NMAI Conducts Test Move
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PrintThe 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.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Annals of the Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Washington, D.C.: National Collections Program, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2000, pg. 21.
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
December 1996
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