We wanted to celebrate with all of you, our excitement over recently receiving a fantastic donation via our PayPal button on our website! To know you’re still thinking of us and supporting us during these interesting times is uplifting in more ways than one! If you are looking for where […]
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We’ve got a brand new design available on our RedBubble Shop page! Created by our very own in house artist, take a look at this fabulous vector rendering of six individual pots from our exhibits! There’s a lot of visitors that have expressed on previous occasions that weren’t expecting such […]
We’ve got a brand new design available on our RedBubble Shop page! Created by our very own in house artist, take a look at this fabulous vector rendering of three dolls from our exhibits! There’s a lot of visitors that have expressed on previous occasions that weren’t expecting such a […]
After multiple requests from our fantastic supporters, we have added a way to donate to the museum from the safety of your home! Just go to any page on the museum website that has a right sidebar and you should see the button right near the top! You should be […]
One of our very special Christmas gifts this year was a food basket donated on our behalf by Linda & Victor Eure. The donation was made to the Southwest Indian Foundation which has a mission to provide: ” substantial school grants and individual tuition assistance, homes for battered women and […]
The museum hopes everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend.On Friday we had a visit from two of our amazing long time volunteers, Anna Meshejlan and Patrick Basloe. They planted several North Carolina wildflowers and shrubs as part of a long-term project for the museum’s Natural History Center.. A buttonbush, elderberry bush, red buckeye, marsh sunflower, rattlesnake […]
When US military codes kept being broken by the Germans in WW1 a Native American tribe came to the rescue. They just spoke their own language – which baffled the enemy – and paved the way for other Native American “code talkers” in WW2. It’s an irony that probably didn’t […]
One of the exhibits on the museum nature trail has recently been moved and enlarged. The shad boat has a new location and a new roof with ample space for visitors. The Round bottom shad boat . . . also known as Croatan fishing boat, Pamilco Sound boat, Albemarle Sound boat, […]
This glorious mask was made by the Huichol people, a southern tribe descendant from the Aztecs. Still residing in the coastal Jalisco and Nayarit of Mexico, the Huichol people continue many of their cultural practices. For the Huichol, the art world and the spirit world were one. Each of the […]
We are overjoyed to announce that construction has begun (and already gotten quite far) on a new bridge that leads to the Nature Trail! Slightly wider than the bridge that went before it, this will be easier for our visitors with mobility aids to utilize! But….that’s not ALL the good […]
With the announcement that Stage 2 will be extended till at least September 11th, we decided to add a new design to our RedBubble account! All of our designs can be found at our REDBUBBLE SHOP SITE. Items purchased from RedBubble are created and shipped from their distributors and they […]
The museum recently received a MOST generous donation from Marie Huber, former Director of Technology for the Dare County School System. The donation was made in memory of five other former employees of the Dare County School system: Becky AdamsPat FearingNaomi HesterLaurette SwindellRamona Webb Marie, who has lived in […]