Exhibits

• Children’s area containing a giant hands-on, interactive stethoscope and microscope
• Medical tools exhibit, including a catheter, bone saw, surgical scalpel, trephine crown for drilling into the skull, and artery forceps
• Smallpox vaccination exhibit
• Virtual physician exhibit featuring the hologram of an actor portraying army doctor Erastus Wolcott, who served at Fort Mackinac in the 19th-century, examining patients and making diagnosis’s; and a hologram of a modern doctor comparing Dr. Wolcott’s diagnosis and treatment of these real historic medical cases to the modern diagnosis and treatment.

KIDS' QUARTERS
Officers’ Stone Quarters
Designed especially for our youngest guests, this children’s area contains more than 15 interactive, hands-on play and learning stations, including:

• Giant playable fife
• Half-scale cannon model ready for children to “fire”
• Pullout cannon in a blockhouse with sound effects
• Interactive video that enables kids to view themselves on screen drilling like a soldier along with a virtual sergeant at arms
• Historic checkerboard game with several play options
• Cut-out mural of Victorian ladies and American soldiers, providing hilarious family photo opportunities
• Hands-on Morse code keys
• Children-sized American soldier clothing and hats for dress-up

MACKINAC: AN ISLAND FAMOUS IN THESE REGIONS
Soldiers’ Barracks, top floor
Learn about the many eras of Mackinac Island, from the introduction of Jesuit missionaries to the flourishing fur trade to the influx of post-Civil War tourists and the emergence of the fudge industry.  This 3,500 square foot exhibit, sponsored by the Ford Motor Company Fund, contains:
Informative displays about the island’s history, including Native Americans, missionaries, fur traders, fishermen, soldiers, and tourists 

• Hands-on displays, including the feel of replicated animal furs that were prevalent during the fur trade
• Rare artifacts such as the original deed to Mackinac Island, which documents the transfer of Mackinac Island from the Ojibwa people to the British government (final transfer of the island took place in 1779)
• Historical photographs and paintings
• Touch-screen video featuring 20th-century Mackinac home movie footage
• Clips from the 1940s movie “This Time For Keeps”, starring Esther Williams, and behind the scenes photos from “Somewhere in Time”, starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve.
• Rare 1860s stereoview postcards

OFFICERS' HILL QUARTERS
Restored duplex home contains period settings and professionally prepared exhibits that reflect the family and social lives of officers, their wives, and children who lived and died at Fort Mackinac during the 1880’s.  In this exhibit learn:

• What an officer did to save his young son from dehydration during a long illness after the death of his other child
• How an officer’s wife, despite her many children, managed her household frugally by sewing her families’ cloths and tending to the many chores of domestic life
• Many more awe-inspiring facts about Victorian life within a military fort