The entrance to the museum is a long hallway with white walls and dark blue carpet. At the end of the hall is a tall exhibit that reaches the ceiling and is behind glass. The first exhibit discusses how native culture was influenced by the Europeans that came to this land and how the first recorded English contact was here on Hatteras Island off the coast of Buxton and Frisco. Inside the exhibit you can see two Spanish helmets, replica of a Spanish galleon, a long-necked gourd with the bulb cut in a way that it could be used as a ladle, two shadowboxes that display beads made of hammered copper and glass. There is a small window cut into the wall shown on the left of the image that serves as a place to take admission and a window into the gift shop. Continuing down the wall, we see paintings lining the bottom 1/3rd of the wall and three square exhibits behind glass above them. From the window coming in: an exhibit showing many types of native footwear; a collection of both native made and english made snuff boxes; a collection of various pipe styles from both indigenous people and european trade pipes that were used to trade with the natives for goods.
