Beschreibung:
DUANE BLUE SPRUCE (Laguna/San Juan Pueblo), an architect, served for ten years as the primary liaison between the museum and the architectural design and construction team. He currently works at NMAI's George Gustav Heye Center in New York. TANYA THRASHER (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) is assistant head of publications at NMAI.
Unlike most landscapes that surround other museums on the National Mall, the natural environment around the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is itself a living exhibit. This work features images of the museum's natural environment in every season as well as the uniquely designed building itself.