The Experiential Design Index

Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations — National Museum of the American Indian

"Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations" opened September 21, 2014 at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, on the museum's 10th anniversary, and ran through fall 2018; exhibition design and fabrication were a design-build collaboration between R&P Design and Hadley Exhibits.

VenueNational Museum of the American Indian
Project typeTemporary Exhibition
StatusCompleted
Year completed2014
Technologiesobject cases, projected media

Credits

FirmRoleNote
Reich+Petch Exhibit Design Design-build process in partnership with Hadley Exhibits
Hadley Exhibits Fabrication
Available Light Lighting Design
SH Acoustics Acoustic Consulting
Electrosonic AV Integration
EwingCole Architecture
the-protection-engineering-group Technical Consulting / Owner's Representation
people-places-design-and-research Interpretive Planning

Description

Guest curated by Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee), the exhibition traced the history of US-tribal treaty making from the early republic through 20th-century treaty-rights litigation, featuring original treaties on loan from the National Archives on a rotating basis. It won the 2016 AAM Award of Excellence in Exhibitions, the museum's first.

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