Event Details

Name: Community Open House
Start: 2024-05-23
End: 2024-05-23
Location: Madeline Island Museum

Thursday, May 23, 2024

5 pm - 7 PM

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Location

Madeline Island Museum

Madeline Island Museum, 226 Colonel Woods Ave

La Pointe, WI 54850-0009

madelineisland@wisconsinhistory.org

Accessibility

Guests with additional mobility needs are encouraged to contact the site directly at madelineisland@wisconsinhistory.org or 715-747-2415.

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About the Event

Join friends and neighbors to celebrate the beginning of the 2024 Madeline Island Museum season! Be among the first to experience the new Passages exhibit, enjoy light snacks and beverages, and learn more about this season’s programs and events.

Passages

Ojibwe Migration to the Place Where the Food Grows on the Water

Madeline Island has long been a place of courageous travelers. Learn more about the epic journeys of people through the Apostle Island archipelago and beyond. This new exhibit showcases the migration of Ojibwe people to Madeline Island, and their journey to stay.

Explore the Anishinaabe migration to Moningwanekaaning, Chief Buffalo’s 1849 journey from Madeline Island to Washington D.C. and the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe, and Eliza Morrison’s stories of travels around the Lake Superior region. Dugout and birchbark canoes, paintings by Carl Gawboy (Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe), and multi-media features create a unique opportunity to experience Madeline Island as the center of passages to and from the island over time.

The Passages exhibit is sponsored in part by the Friends of the Madeline Island Museum with a generous contribution from the Coffin Family in memory of Robert P. Coffin.

Cost:

Free

About the Location

A visit to the Madeline Island Museum is an adventure through time, exploring the stories of the diverse peoples who have called the island home. Your immersive self-guided tour traverses four historic structures that combine to form the heart of this modern museum featuring fascinating artifacts and engaging exhibits telling Ojibwe, French, British and American stories. Explore the historic buildings that comprise the modern museum, each exploring the diverse cultures that have called Madeline Island home throughout history. Experience Indigenous life, the fur trade, logging, boat building, fishing, missionary activity, immigrant life and much more.