National Museum of the American Indian
The museum is located in a very grand and palatial building with marble floors and towering columns. The outside of this historical federal building has goddess figures built into the architecture. The collection within and the statues outside don't seem to match up, but both are fascinating.
Mesoamerican Goddesses Are Inside of the Museum
Goddesses Representing America Crown the Outside of the Museum
A Greek Goddess Represents Ancient Commerce
Goddess Liberty Lives on the Archway into the Museum
"The tradition of symbolizing a place in the form of a god or goddess stretched back to Roman times, as did Europe's connection with Africa and Asia. With the coming of the Renaissance and the reintroduction of Classical art and ideas into European society, rather Roman-looking goddesses came to symbolize the three continents of the Old World."
-Jordan Baker, Atlantic World History
