Also in Salem is Rockingham Park racetrack, which features weekly horse racing, and America's Stonehenge, which claims to be a pre-Columbian collection of stone structures.
The movie prop idol was based on an actual greenstone carving in the pre-Columbian collection at Dumbarton Oaks.
This presentation shares the spotlight with the museum's pre-Columbian collection, now housed in a permament Pre-Columbian and Primitive Hall of Art.
To support his studies, he catalogued pre-Columbian collections at the Museum of Natural History, where the Aztec and Mayan pieces exerted great power on him.
The basement, formerly a wine cellar, houses the pre-Columbian collection.
The festivities begin at the Met, with documentary films, tours of the pre-Columbian collection and music by the group Mexico Beyond Mariachi.
The pre-eminent piece in the pre-Columbian collection is the 2,000-year-old Paracas Textile.
In 1994 the Mayers gave the majority of their pre-Columbian collection to the Denver Art Museum, which displays more than 2,000 of those objects on the fourth floor.
The Art Museum makes a showcase of its pre-Columbian collection, one of the nation's best.
Its pre-Columbian collection is displayed in a spacious contemporary building by Edward Durell Stone, surrounded by lush gardens.