National Museum

The National Museum is one of the great cultural institutions of the United States, with branches in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Connecticut. Under curator Marcus Brody's influence in the 1930's, many of the museum's exhibits featured artifacts recovered by Indiana Jones.

Behind the scenes
Several sources refer to the National Museum, but its location is inconsistent. Lawrence Kasdan's Raiders of the Lost Ark screenplay identifies Marcus Brody as "Curator of the National Museum in Washington D.C.", but the Raiders of the Lost Ark Sourcebook has Brody working at an unnamed museum in New York City during the same time period. Marvel's Further Adventures comics, meanwhile, refer to "Connecticut's National Museum." The concept of multiple branches of the same institution resolves the apparent contradiction.