The National Museum of the American Indian doesn’t look like your average Washington museum. In fact, had it not been so well-executed, it could have easily looked out of place in the nation’s capital. “Bringing rude nature to the hallowed ground of the Mall takes guts, of course. But this is not rude nature. No wilderness actually looked like this. It is as calculated a built artifact in its own way as is Tomorrowland. It is nature to which human intelligence and imagination have been applied. It is an Indian’s image of Eden.”