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Holiday Schedule Update

For 2024, we are choosing to close for both December 24th as well as December 25th. We hope that all of you have a splendid holiday and stay warm and cosy no matter where you are. May next year bring us more joy than we expect. Remember that in January, […]

NC Tripping Feature Spot

We were just informed of a wonderful feature in a travel blog about the Outer Banks by the site NC Tripping! Carl Hedinger and Christina Riley are the travel bloggers behind NC Tripping and its sister site Travel Through Life. After years of living abroad, they’ve called North Carolina “home” since 2015. […]

Website Changes and Updates

We’ve been busy little bees over here and we’ve got some exciting things to share! A shift in our Menu While our website has the same great dynamic you know and love, we’ve made a few minor changes. Our menu bar has shifted around and we’ve added some information. Most […]

1st Annual Thrills & Chills Halloween Event!

We’ve got a brand new event that we’re excited to be sharing with you! Wednesday, October 30th, travel to four of your favorite museums on Hatteras Island for a day of scary and thrilling stories! Each museum has incredible stories to be told at different times during the day. Stories […]

Wild Poinsettia & Pollinators

We are working on several avenues to bring more native plants and pollinators to our museum grounds and Nature Trail to both support our native ecosystem and educate our visitors. In that spirit, we’d like to introduce Euphorbia cyathophora, also called Wild Poinsettia or Fire-on-the-Mountain. This unique looking plant makes […]

Our New Pollinator Sign!

When we announced a GoFundMe to try and raise funds for a very large outdoor sign, we were delighted to reach our goal with mind-blowing speed! We sent it ASAP to Hatteras Island Vinyl Graphics in Buxton and waited patiently for the call. We knew it would be special but […]

Native Culture in Unexpected Places

A newly published paper on 22 new species of gall wasp may not be something you’d ever consider as having any connection to Native American culture. Most people have seen a gall before. A strange growth on a plant that makes the stem bumpy or puffed up. Sometimes little furry […]

Our First Free Museum Success!

Community support is an important aspect of many native nations. It was understood that the weakest members of the tribe said much about how well your people were taking care of one another to ensure survival of all members. We wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone that brought […]

Pump Drills

We had a very interesting discussion in the museum about wampum and pump drills and our visiting family asked a question we didn’t know the answer to….How long were the pump drills used? So we promised to look into it and write up a feature about what we found! A […]

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Free Museum Day

On Saturday, September 14, 2024, individuals will have an opportunity to visit  the Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center with only a small donation – NO admission fee.  Originally the Smithsonian Magazine “Museum Day” (with a 20 year tradition of offering free admission to designated museums across the country) was […]

Website Changes

The world of technology is always changing at a rapid pace and we’re always trying to keep up as best we can. With some of the recent updates that our website has experienced (some of you may have noticed we were unexpectedly down for a few days), it made it […]

Outer Banks Feature!

The lovely Molly Harrison of Outer Banks This Week has shared an article that features our museum! “One of the most special and meaningful Outer Banks museums is found off the beaten path, way down Hatteras Island in the tiny village of Frisco. The Frisco Native American Museum explores the […]