Makah Museum
- Address
- Neah Bay, Washington
- Website
- makah.com
About Makah Museum
The Makah Museum, also known as the Makah Cultural and Research Center, is an archaeological and anthropological museum on the Makah Indian reservation in Neah Bay, Washington. It houses and interprets artifacts from the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site, a Makah village partly buried by a mudslide at Lake Ozette around 1750, providing a snapshot of pre-contact tribal life. The museum includes a replica long house and thousands of artifacts of interest to academics and laypeople, including canoes, basketry, whaling and fishing gear.
The museum was created under the leadership of tribal chairman Edward Eugene Claplanhoo and opened in 1979, soon after the Lake Ozette site was unearthed.
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- Founded
- 1979
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01WashingtonRichie Diesterheft from Santa Barbara, CA, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0
02Makah NationJohn Fowler from Placitas, NM, USA · CC BY 2.0
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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within 32 miles of Makah Museum; the closest, Makah Cultural and Reseach Center, is about a mile away.
