After earlier visits to the Air and Space, and American History, museums, this Smithsonian came as a pleasant surprise. It lacks the wow factor of the other two but more than makes up for that with its exquisite collection of artefacts ranging in time and...More

Lots of information and interesting displays. You can definitely learn a lot there. But it's poorly designed. Much of the time I didn't know where an exhibit started or ended, where to go next, etc. It would be easy to miss something important.

Given the formidable offering of cultural sights in Washington DC, in retrospective I should not have tiered this museum among the first ones to visit. The building is architecturally impressive, modern, spacious, impeccably maintained. And this is almost all I can say of good. The...More

As a retired Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies, and as a Charter Member of the NMAI before the building was even constructed, I was eagerly looking forward to my first visit to the Museum. I was not disappointed, in fact would give the...More

To curate this museum is a gargantuan undertaking. The idea is to represent the diversity of native peoples from the top of the Americas to the bottom. Even so, the museum does an excellent job at balancing between a multitude of groups across the continents...More

This is an awesome display exhibits through time You could spend all day or even several days just in this museum Very sad that we have to go through TSA type screening The great part of the Smithsonian’s are that they are still FREE

Loads of material for you to learn about American Indians, their culture art etc. However, not the most exciting museum in that everything seems a little static. Definitely worth a visit though.