Event Details

Name: Connecting Cultures: Fur Trade Weekend
Start: 2024-07-05
End: 2024-07-07
Location: Madeline Island Museum

Friday, July 5, 2024 to Sunday, July 7, 2024

10 AM - 5 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

Ready to step back into the past to explore Wisconsin’s unique fur trading roots? During Fur Trade Weekend on Madeline Island, you’ll travel across time—over 150 years of it, to be exact—as you walk through a dedicated recreation of an Old World 1800s fur trade encampment. Not only will you get an up-close look at the fur trading process, but you’ll also interact with historians and re-enactors as they demonstrate the many other fascinating aspects of a trading post: firearms development, birch canoe building, blacksmithing, surveying, wilderness medicine and more.

Cost:

This event is included with general admission. Society members receive admission for 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.