Mitchell Museum of the American Indian is the only museum in the
Chicago-area that focuses exclusively on the history, culture and arts
of North American native peoples.
The Mitchell Museum of the American
Indian was founded in 1977 with John and Betty Mitchell's gift to
Kendall College of their Native American collection. Based on almost
60 years of collecting, primarily among the Southwest, Plains and
Great Lakes Indians, the Mitchell Collection provided a nucleus of
approximately 3,000 individual objects. Over the past 20 years
numerous gifts and purchases have increased the Museum's collection to
more than three times the original size.
In 1997 the Mitchell Museum moved to its current home in northwest
Evanston, approximately 2 miles from the main Kendall College campus.
The three level brick and concrete building provides room for
permanent exhibits dedicated to the Native cultures of the Woodlands,
Plains, Southwest, Northwest Coast and Arctic regions of North
America. Each gallery contains a "touching table" where visitors can
handle real examples of Indian artifacts, as well as feel the raw
materials - including snakeskin, caribou fur, birch bark, turquoise
and buffalo skin - that were used by Native Americans. There are also
two changing galleries that feature special temporary exhibits.
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