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The Iroquois Indian Museum is an educational institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Iroquois culture using Iroquois art as a window to that culture. The Museum is a venue for promoting Iroquois art and artists, and a meeting place for everyone to celebrate Iroquois culture.

Exhibits

“Iroquois Artistic Visions: From Sky World to Turtle Island” is an exhibition featuring new works by contemporary Iroquois artists in addition to art from the Museum’s permanent collection. Paintings, sculpture, pottery, beadwork and other media in the exhibition will focus on the important symbols in the Iroquois Creation Story. The Creation Story is fundamental to understanding Iroquois culture and society because it expresses what is valuable in Iroquois culture. The story contains ideas that define the Iroquois role relative to the universe and confirms their attachment to a land on which their ancestors have lived for at least ten thousand years. It helps to explain their survival as a distinct ethnic group participating in a multicultural world. The exhibition will take a concept that was traditionally oral and translate it in a number of contemporary visual forms.

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