My job is assistant director for history and culture at the Smithsonians National museum of the American Indian. I lead the scholars, the historians and curators at the museum who are in charge of producing the exhibitions, and the books and a lot of the Educational Programs and symposiums and work with a collection of about 824,000 objects, but i have a real interest in photography, and we have also 500,000 photographs in the National Museums Archive Center and ive been working very hard in the year that ive been at this museum. I have a 30year career at the smithsonian and i just joined the museum in the last year and these photographs are of much interest to me at the Archive Center. So you wrote an article about the collection. Tell us why you wrote this article . A virtual tour of history . Thanks, richard. We have a great magazine. American indian magazine that is a members magazine for our museum and have become more and more familiar with it offer time so when i was asked for t
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