NEW YORK - The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will host an indoor holiday art market Friday through Sunday, Dec. 8- 10, at its Washington, D.C., and New York City locations. The market will be open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, and admission is free. Visitors will be able to purchase works from 35 Native artists, including silver and semiprecious jewelry, ceramics, fine apparel, handwoven baskets, traditional beadwork, dolls dressed in Native regalia and paintings, prints and sculpture. The National Museum of the American Indian holiday art market offers a unique shopping opportunity for visitors to purchase traditional and contemporary works by some of the finest Native artists. Artists were selected through a competitive application process.

In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is located on the National Mall at Fourth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The museum is free and open every day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., except Dec. 25. For general information, call 202-633-1000 or TTY 202-357-1729. The museum is accessible from the L’Enfant Plaza Metrorail station; take the Maryland Avenue/Smithsonian Museums exit.

In New York City, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian’s George Gustav Heye Center is located at One Bowling Green, across from Battery Park. The museum is free and open every day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursdays until 8 p.m. Call 212-514-3700 for general information and 212-514-3888 for a recording about the museum’s public programs. By subway, the museum may be reached by the 1 to South Ferry, the 4 or 5 to Bowling Green or the R or W to Whitehall Street.

For more information about the National Museum of the American Indian, please visit http://www.AmericanIndian.si.edu .