Galleries
Infinity of Nations, located on level 2, is the permanent collection of the Heye Center, and shows the scope of the Smithsonian's collection. Organized by geographic regions, the exhibit displays over 700 items and crosses the line from ethnology to art. Multimedia interactions include audio and video, and feature commentary by historians on specific objects. The Rotunda, also located on level 2, is frequently used as a performance space, and features murals reflecting the history of the building, done by Reginald Marsh. Other spaces on level 2 include the Photography Gallery, Special Exhibit Galleries, Contemporary Galleries, the Haudenosaunee Discovery Room, the Resource Center Reference Library, a small theater (which screens daily films), and the Museum Store. Level 1 of the building houses Diker Pavilion for Native Arts and Culture and the Education Center (referred to as 'the Tipi room').
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“I have got enough of the old masters! Brown says he has “shook” them, and I think I will shake them, too. You wander through a mile of picture galleries and stare stupidly at ghastly old nightmares done in lampblack and lightning, and listen to the ecstatic encomiums of the guides, and try to get up some enthusiasm, but it won’t come.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)