The Nisg̱aʼa Museum is gearing up for another busy season.
Starting July 1, the museum, located in Laxgalts'ap 150 kilometres northwest of Terrace, will be open seven days a week until Labour Day weekend.
Tina Moore, education and program coordinator at the museum, said they typically welcome between 3,500 and 4,000 visitors every season, with those numbers continuing to grow.
She said she enjoys meeting all the visitors who come to the museum.
"It's amazing to still live at home but meet people from all over the world and learn all the parallels in all the different societies and see all the similarities."
The heart of the Nisga’a Museum is the Ancestors’ Collection which contains an array of exquisitely carved masks, bentwood boxes, headdresses, soul catchers, and other works of art acquired from Nisga’a people during the late 19th and early 20th centuries,
According to the Nisga'a Lisims Government, many Nisga’a possessions were mistaken as idols and destroyed by missionaries who established themselves along the Nass River. Others were given away or sold to private individuals or museum collectors.
The treasures in the Ancestors’ Collection were returned to the Nass Valley from museums in Ottawa and Victoria as part of the Nisga’a Treaty.
