"Concourse and Periphery" in perspective: well past planning.(National Museum of the American Indian)

From: The American Indian Quarterly | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Ostrowitz, Judith | Copyright information

The following article was first published in 2002, about a year and a half before the completion of the National Museum of the American Indian building on the mall in Washington DC and well before the celebrations that accompanied the opening of its doors to the public on September 21, 2004. Most of my research on the topic of the long planning process for the architecture itself and for those aspects of exhibition planning and operations strategies that had already been discussed ...

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