Tantaquidgeon Museum, Plymouth 400
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Can you hear the voices? Past, present, future intertwine; you are part of all that alive right now. One planet, all species.
Special event: “Our” Story 400 Years of Wampanoag History exhibit at Mohegan Cultural Preservation Center, 1 Church Lane, Uncasville, CT (across from the Tantaquidgeon Museum). It tells the Wampanoag Tribe's story of first contact with the Plymouth Colony in the early 1600s and their enduring 400 year legacy since. The exhibit is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Hours are extended from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the week prior to Thanksgiving, and the exhibit will close on Friday, Dec. 20, 2019. For more information call (860) 862-0875.
Admission is free. Open to the general public. Note: Due to the pandemic, the museum has closed. Check for updates via the official Facebook page for the site.
For more context and information on the exhibit (and connections to the world), visit the Plymouth 400 exhibit page. There is also Mayflower 400, to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower, the legacy of the passengers and crew who undertook the journey and to highlight their stories and heritage, embedded in communities across the UK, US and Netherlands and the Wampanoag Nation. The year 2020 marks the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the ship from the UK to the ‘New World’ of America. Also see Mystic Seaport, which recently held a public event for the re-commissioning of Mayflower II that involved people from all 50 states as well as Plymouth, U.K., and Leiden, Netherlands.