First Americans Museum Visitor Center

Open and embrasing

The Visitor Center is one of the first in a series of dramatic structures that will serve as a destination point for the patron to the First Americans Museum. The spiraling form of the roof, coupled with the complementary form of the Museum, creates a space that embraces the Visitor in a welcoming gesture and dynamically sweeps the eye forward into the masonry East Entrance, the Hall of The People, the Courtyard, and the FAM Mound. Establishing the southern half of the Courtyard, the Visitor Center is an essential part of the two circular forms present on the site, symbolizing both the social and spiritual influences in our world as well as the reconciliation of Nature and Man.