The full story of the making of the American People starts with the first migrations to this land some 20,000 years ago and extends through waves of migration and immigration to the present.
There are organizations now backing a bipartisan Presidential Commission to study the establishment of the National Museum of the American People. They represent different ethnic, national, minority, and genealogical groups. Click on a group to view the organizations supporting this effort.
The Washington, D.C. office of the law firm K&L Gates LLP is generously providing pro bono support for the Coalition for the National Museum of the American People.
WASHINGTON, DC - An architectural vision of the proposed National Museum of the American People that depicts what could become a major new Washington landmark at the end of L’Enfant Plaza, overlooking the Maine Avenue waterfront and the Washington Channel of the Potomac River was released May 3.
What's New 15 Ethnic Hill Caucuses Represented by Sign-ons
As of December 1, the bipartisan co-chairs of 15 House Congressional ethnic caucuses and delegations have become cosponsors of H. Con. Res. 63. They include both bipartisan co-chairs of the Scottish and Native American caucuses and the Italian delegation and a co-chair of these caucuses: German, Greek, United Kingdom, Central Asia, Baltic, Hungarian, Turkish, Taiwan, Korea, Irish, Caribbean and Vietnam.
In an E Pluribus Unum moment, groups from across the spectrum of American ethnic, minority and genealogically-based organizations came together on the National Mall in Washington, DC to call for establishment of the National Museum of the American People. Please take a look at this 2 1/2 minute video:
Scholars from around the globe specializing in the migration and immigration of peoples are now affiliated with the Coalition for the National Museum of the American People. The scholars represent a range of disciplines, including historians, anthropologists and sociologists. The Museum will be a scholarly driven institution.
The gathering of peoples from throughout the world is one of the essential and ongoing stories of our nation. Yet, at the central gathering point in our nation’s capital on or near the National Mall, there is little that tells a full and coherent story about all of the peoples that came to make this nation. Without this story being told here, there’s a monumental void in the midst of our capital.
If a bi-partisan Presidential Study Commission to Study Establishment of the National Museum of the American People is announced in 2011, the Museum could open by 2018.
What's New House Support Grows; Now at 26 Cosponsors
WASHINGTON, DC - There are now 26 bipartisan House cosponsors of House Congressional Resolution 63. Congressman Jim Moran, D-Va, introduced the legislation in July. It calls for the creation of a Presidential Commission to study the establishment of a National Museum of the American People devoted to the role immigration and migration played in development of American society. The museum would tell the story of every group that came from the prehistoric period through today.
WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Jim Moran announces introduction of the Coalition’s resolution calling for a study of the National Museum of the American People at a July 7 press event at the Capitol.
For a press release announcing resolution introduction, click here.
WASHINGTON, DC - The Coalition of the National Museum of the American People announced on February 9 at a Capitol Hill press conference the launch of the effort to establish the National Museum of the American People. Representatives of 30 of the organizations participated in the event.
A bipartisan Presidential Commission to study the establishment of the National Museum of the American People is being proposed as the first step in creating the Museum.
The Museum's potential audience is vast. People from every ethnic and minority group in the nation who are part of this story — in other words, everyone — would flock to the Museum to see how their story is told and to learn the stories of all the other groups. The Museum has the potential to become a national pilgrimage destination.
