Maidu Museum & Historic Site

Maidu Museum & Historic Site

Grinding holes at the historic site
Established 1998
Location 1970 Johnson Ranch Drive
Roseville, California,
United States
Type Interpretive Center
Website Official website

The Maidu Museum & Historic Site is an Interpretive Center[1] museum dedicated to public education about the Maidu peoples.

The museum sits at an ancient site where Nisenan Maidu families lived for 3,000 years. Hundreds of bedrock mortar holes, petroglyphs on sandstone boulders, rock art, and a vast midden area are evidence of thousands of years of residence.[2] The site has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.

The site is unique in the presentation of Maidu life.[3][4] The museum offers interpretive programs, exhibits, multi-media presentations, and special events.

Exhibits

The center contains several permanent exhibits.[5]

See also

California State Indian Museum

References

  1. ↑ "Maidu Interpretive Center". News10.net. Archived from the original on July 19, 2010. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  2. ↑ "City of Roseville, California - Historic Site & Trail". Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Sacramento Press / History Museum Presents "An Indigenous History of Sacramento” Special Lecture - 4/14". Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Maidu Museum & Historic Site – Museum Day Venues". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
  5. ↑ "City of Roseville, California - Exhibits". Retrieved August 1, 2012.
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