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Canadian law requires that all people entering Canada must carry proof of both citizenship and identity. [1] A valid U.S. passport [1] or passport card [1] is preferred, although a birth certificate, naturalization certificate, citizenship certificate, or another document proving U.S. nationality, together with a government-issued photo ID (such as a driver's license) are acceptable to ...
The National Museums of Canada Corporation (NMC) (French: Société des musées nationaux du Canada) was created in 1967.It included the National Gallery of Canada Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Nature Corporation, and the National Museum of Science and Technology Corporation (now the Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation).
An American Indian Museum is a museum that focuses on the history, culture and arts of North American native peoples. Specifically, it may refer to: National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C. George Gustav Heye Center, or the National Museum of the American Indian–New York, New York City; Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New ...
The center is named for George Gustav Heye, who began collecting Native American artifacts in 1903.He founded and endowed the Museum of the American Indian in 1916, and it opened in 1922, in a building at 155th Street and Broadway, part of the Audubon Terrace complex, in the Sugar Hill neighborhood, just south of Washington Heights. [2]
The groundbreaking ceremony for the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall was held on September 28, 1999. [26] The museum opened on September 21, 2004. [27] Fifteen years in the making, it was the first national museum in the country dedicated exclusively to Native Americans.
The Remington Carriage Museum is located in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. Opened in 1993, and the largest of its kind in the world [ citation needed ] , the Remington Carriage Museum displays more than 240 carriages .
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The Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in 1922. [8] It closed in 1994, after the collection had been moved in 1989 to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1994 the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian opened in the former Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House near Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.