The National Museum of the American People is a proposed ground-breaking museum that will tell our nation's dramatic central story about the making of the American People. It will advance and disseminate knowledge about that history. Our compelling narrative, about peoples crossing oceans and continents to come to this land and nation, begins with the first humans in the Western Hemisphere and continues through today.
This novel addition to our nation is crucial now as it literally brings all Americans together. The NMAP will celebrate every group who became Americans, whether from Europe, Africa, Asia and Pacific Islands, the Americas, or those that were already here as First Peoples. It will highlight their accomplishments that made America the world's economic, military, scientific and cultural leader. It will tell every group's unique story about becoming Americans.
The museum will tell the stirring story about who these people were, where they came from, why they left their homeland, how they got here, when they arrived, where they first settled, who was already here, what they encountered, where they settled after they arrived, how they became Americans, what they contributed and how they transformed our nation. Every American group will see their story about becoming an American, and with so many Americans of mixed heritage, they'll see their own story along different points of the museum's pathway.
Our story is among the greatest epic sagas in human history, and this museum will become one of the most powerful and compelling story-telling museums anywhere. It will take visitors along an absorbing, dynamic pathway figuratively lit by our Constitution. Historically-based, the museum can help foster broader understanding of our nation's core values. Most importantly, it will serve as the cornerstone for a stronger and more unified nation.