The National Museum of the American Indian has affiliation online with the following two organizations:
- Smithsonian Insititution (indicated on website)
- Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (not listed on NMAI site, NMAI is listed on ATALM's
There is collaboration in presenting the collection database online, the museum has 3 'locations' and all of the objects are in one database on their shared site.
Some of the possible organizations, especially with respect to IT, that NMAI could usefully join are: