To add another layer of information to Dave Wells' comment about the two
facilities at NMAI.  Plans actually call for three buildings: the Customs
House, the Mall Museum, plus the storage/study facility at (sp?) Suitland
Maryland outside Washington D.C.  I participated in a two-day planning
meeting for NMAI a couple of years ago, and they also discussed what they
call the Fourth Museum, which a museum without walls on the grandest possible
scale, a virtual assemblage of hundreds of tribal nations linked by
technology.  In some ways, they felt that the Fourth Museum was the most importa
nt.....
 
This is not new info, the technology consultation meeting was a while ago.
If anyone from NMAI is on line, it would be very interesting to learn what
has happened since then.
 
Ann Mintz
Orlando Science Center
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