Ziibiwing Center

Museum Review

Ziibiwing Center

            Wow is what I’m going to start off with! This museum has such a huge story to how the early people of Michigan lived or to be more exact the Anishinaabe, people of the Great Lakes. The Ziibiwing Center has huge open exhibits that really make you feel like your standing next to a wigwam in the woods. This museum when you first enter almost seems as if you really went back in time to visit the early people of Michigan. However, in the middle portion of the museum there’s a very dark history in Michigan about how early settlers did not treat the natives with the best care. Without giving too much children would be taken to schools to be forced the English language and writing. That aside this whole museum is just a giant time capsule with two theaters that play a video about how life started in the Anishinaabe culture. There’s also tons of artifacts of the tools they invented and diagrams on how they used them and what they were used for back in the day. So locally this museum is just a treasure of knowledge if you ever need to know about early people of the great lakes. Throughout the exhibit I only saw one person and it was the lady who sold me the ticket. Which I preferred this was a museum where you can take in the information better by yourself. The pictures below can’t do enough justice for how great this museum is. If you happen to be in the area come on in and if you live in Mt. Pleasant and haven’t been there yet, better get on going then.

Thanks for reading,

Ford Brott