Permanent History and Ethnology Exhibitions on View in the Syre Education Center

First Nations - Northwest Coast and Inuit exhibitions:
The museum’s collection of Native American artifacts includes good examples of the use of natural materials to enhance the quality of native life, including baskets, bent-wood boxes, masks, canoe, fishing gear, Salish and Chilkat blankets, mats, hats, and other tools and accessories. A video on contemporary Lummi basketweaver Anna Jefferson adds a first-person voice to the interpretation.

Native Basket Open Storage Area:
Nearly 350 Native American baskets from the Northwest Coast region, British Columbia, Alaska, and the western United States are included.

Nooksack Valley Settlement Cabin and Tools:
The interior of a settlement cabin, ca. 1890-1910, includes period furniture, tools, accessories, and clothing. Other hand tools of this do-it-yourself era are included.

This was Logging exhibition:
Tools from the period of hand logging and animal skidding are interpreted through photo-murals by photographer Darius Kinsey and four miniature dioramas describing logging and transportation in the woods from the 1880s to the present.

Victorian Bellingham, ca. 1890-1910 exhibition:
Bedroom and parlor from a Bellingham home of the period include furniture, clothing, and accessories of the time.