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Article: FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF SMITHSONIAN'S NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN INDIAN WILL DISCUSS ROLE OF 21ST CENTURY MUSEUMS
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- September 25, 2009
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ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 24 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
W. Richard West Jr., founding director emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, will present the University of Michigan Exhibit Museum of Natural History's 11th annual William R. Farrand lecture.
His talk, "The National Museum of the American Indian: Reflections on American History and 21st Century Museology," is the first in the Wednesday Night Museums lecture series, part of the U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts' Museum Theme Year.
The opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., turned the page ...