Quinault Tribal Museum & Cultural Center

04/22/2026

06/20/2025

Cool exhibition opportunity for all you artists out there 🎨
Free to exhibit, no fee with tables provided.

3 separate dates are available.

Please email [email protected] so I can send all your info (Name, Email, Phone Number) to the event coordinator at the lodge.

06/16/2025

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The Museum is planning to take a group out to Bowerman Basin (Grays Harbor Wildlife Life Refuge) in Hoquiam once again this year to harvest sweet grass:

Our question to our tribal members (and those other tribal members and non-tribal individuals who will accompany them) is when should we host this event?

>End of June?
>Sometime after the 4th of July?

Please give your thoughts in the comments below.
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Other QIN programs that would like to participate or would like to share their thoughts please email or call us or stop by and visit.

(Photo: Sarah Sotomish harvesting sweetgrass. Taken from the book "Basketry of the Quinault by Joan Megan Jones")

05/21/2025

Pauline Capoeman (Kalama) with a portrait of her mom, Charlotte Kalama. Behind Pauline is her mom's basket collection in our museum. Siokwil for visiting us 😀

04/16/2025

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02/11/2025

We recently received an inquiry from a man who is considering donating an item to the museum. The item is a sailing ship replica that was gifted to him when he worked for the Washington State dept. of Economic Development in the 1980's.
He said the person who gifted it to him told him it was made by a Quinault Wood Carver. He has no other information.

If anyone knows who may have carved this, please let us know. we are trying to figure out its origins.

01/10/2025

A noteworthy find donated to the museum today:
A vibrant blue clay stored inside a stick.
We believe the clay to be naturally occurring and possibly used for decoration, adornment or art.

Artifacts are still found to this day by tribal members along our coastline and in our forests. We are blessed to call this land our home 🌊🌲.

01/04/2025

Michael Snell posing with his photocopies (Around 400 pages) 😊. The photos are from an album belonging to Hannah Mason Bowechop Saux. The pages from the photo album have been scanned at high resolution and archived. If you have any photos you wish to be scanned and archived don't hesitate to reach out to us for help. If you wish to see the photos now scanned from the photo album stop by the museum.

12/19/2024

Our hands go up to Ms. Sally Harris for gifting her wonderful photo entitled "Honoring Tradition" to the museum.
Siokwil👐

12/10/2024

Some highlights from our recently cataloged baskets ✨
Stop in to see our extensive basket collection. M-F 10am to 4pm.

10/28/2024

Museum closed for meetings 10/28/24 will re-open 10/29/24
Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.