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Visitor Information

Annual Meeting 2021

Plan Your Visit

Winter Hours

Open weekends in November, Saturdays 10 am to 4 pm, Sundays noon to 4 pm. The museum is open by appointment only to the general public from November 1st through April 30th. Please call 603-456-2600 to arrange a time and date. 

Guided tours are offered at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm, Monday through Saturday and 1:30 pm on Sundays.

Masks are currently optional inside the museum.

Group tours are also available for groups of 10 or more during the winter by calling and making an appointment.

Regular Season Hours

May 1 to October 31
Open daily
Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm, Sunday noon- 4pm with the last admission at 3:00pm for all days.

General Information

Iroquois Glengarry Bonnet

Educational tours available by reservation.

Guided tours available daily pending staff availability. The times are 10:30 am and 1:30 pm, Monday through Saturday and 1:30 pm on Sundays.

Self-guided tours of galleries available all day.

Self-guided tours of Medicine Woods available all day.

Group tours (10 or more) available by reservation.



 

Directions

 

Our museum is located in the town of Warner, New Hampshire. The map to the left shows you our location is only a few miles off Interstate 89. Downtown Warner has a variety of museums, restaurants, and shops.

 

Directions from I-89:

From either exit 8 or 9 take Route 103 to the center of Warner, turn up Kearsarge Mountain Road. After one mile turn right onto Highlawn Road. Turn right into the second driveway. As you pull in to the parking lot you should see the front museum entrance.

Admissions

 

Tickets may be bought online here or purchased in the museum’s gift shop.

Members - Free Become a member today

Adults - $12.00

Seniors/Veterans - $10.00

Children 6 - 12 - $9.00 (children under 6 - no charge)

Household (2 adults & up to 3 children under 18) - $40.00

Native Americans - Free

Guest passes are always available for purchase. Perfect for your gift list!

* Guest passes, Groupons, or any discount passes are not valid for any special events, school tours, or other prearranged group tours.

 

Collections & Exhibitions

MKIM’s collections include thousands of beautiful Native-made objects now housed in the main building, plus the plants growing in the Medicine Woods, and the trees growing in the Janeway Arboretum. We teach students and visitors that many of the Native-made objects inside the museum come from the resources – trees, roots, grasses, berries, stones, and animals – of the outdoors.

Shaping Traditions: Pueblo Pottery

Inside the museum, there is the Main Gallery, the Contemporary Art Gallery, plus special lobby exhibits. The Main Gallery was established when the Museum opened in 1991, and was set up by Bud and Nancy Thompson. It is arranged in a circle, and divided into geographical regions of North America, with an emphasis on their different environments. There may be 100 or more different tribes in each of those regions, and the collections on display are the art and craft of those tribes.

Over the years we have painted the gallery walls, added murals, and made adjustments to highlight new objects, but the basic idea started by Bud and Nancy remains the same -- it is to help the visitor see the beauty in Native-made objects, and to try to imagine the world-views of the maker.

The Contemporary Art Gallery is an area for members of the Native community to create exhibits of contemporary Native art. In past years, members of the Native community have guest-curated new exhibits.

The Contemporary Art Gallery was established in 2012, and its exhibits have included: Beading is Breathing, Containers, Reading Native Art, Giona Sezoha G’dakinna – We Paint Our Land, All My Relations, Tatoos, Protection & Warmth, and more. In Spring 2023 a collection of pottery, A Gift form the Bill Balsam Collection, was curated by intern, Sterling Gross. This exhibit was entitled ‘Shaping Traditions: Pueblo Pottery’ and was displayed through July 2023.

A new exhibit premiered in the Contempory Gallery of the museum on Saturday, July 22nd. This exhibit was made possible by NH Humanities - Community Project Grants. Nebizun (alternately spelled Nebizon) is the Abenaki word for medicine and the root word Nebi is the Abenaki word for water. The rivers and tributaries of N’Dakinna (our homeland) were our highways for traveling and the water itself is important to the species of fish and other wildlife that is necessary to our way of life. As stewards of the environment Native American people know the importance of having clean water. The Abenaki people know and understand the importance of water in everyday activities related to foodways and healing powers of water. Nebizun: Water is Life draws its inspiration from Native American Grandmothers who have been doing water walks to pray for the water, and the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act.

This exhibit was presented in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association and the Abenaki Arts & Education Center.

Lobby Exhibits - Southwest pottery and rugs from the Mike and Rita Griffin Collection are on display in the lobby area.