Special: Boat Building Families of Greater Masset
Learn about the long standing tradition of boat-building in Masset
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The museum currently has an extensive permanent display(alongside a temporary exhibit space) with many items from maritime and settler donated collections. Some are on loan but most have been gifted.
Front gallery: Houses the maritime industries collections: boat building, commercial fishing, whaling and canneries. There are tools and early technologies, boat models, an historic boat and many maritime accessories including a Haida cedar rope, Japanese net line and whaling flescher. Biographies of notable boat builders are included.
In the alcove: mostly settler collections of Howard Phillips and Jessie Bradley with Hibby Gren carvings.. Here you will find typical homestead, post office and telegraph items of the early 1900’s.
In glass cases and other displays:
Display of note, not to be missed:
The oldest European made artefact in British Columbia: a spanish olive jar dredged up in the 1980’s off Langara Island.
Since time immemorial Xaadas have made these islands their home. It has been the bounty of the forest and the sea that have provided the foundation of a rich resilient and strong culture to this day.
Gaw (Old Masset village; meaning “inlet”) was historically four separate villages before the government forced all villages onto one reserve: Masset Indian Reserve #1 in the late 1850’s. Haida Gwaii is the unceded and ancestral territory of Xaada
Learn about the long standing tradition of boat-building in Masset
Currently we are accepting admissions by donation. All Tour Groups must be booked in advance and are subject to a minimum charge of $100 or $5 per person, whichever is cheaper.
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Children 16 and under are free.
$10 per year gets one adult free admission all season.
10 years of annual membership or one payment of $100 get one adult free admission for life.