As the calendar flips to 2025, the Mackinac State Historic Parks team is hard at work protecting, preserving, and presenting the rich history of the Straits of Mackinac by creating new exhibits, galleries, and tours, improving visitor experiences, celebrating a major anniversary, expanding our collections area and library, and finishing major infrastructure improvements on Mackinac Island.
The 2024 archaeological field season was concluded. What did we learn?
We’re halfway through the 2024 archaeological field season, and we’ve met one of our major goals for the season. Learn more:
Most of us have had the experience of moving from one place to another, deciding what to take and what to discard. In the summer of 1781, the residents of Michilimackinac had the same experience.
The 65th field season of archaeology has wrapped up at Colonial Michilimackinac.
The 66th consecutive season of archaeology at Colonial Michilimackinac is underway!
We’re past the halfway point of the 2023 archaeological field season 0 let’s get an update!
The 65th consecutive season of archaeology at Colonial Michilimackinac begins!
We’re taking another dive into the collection! Join Curator of Archaeology Dr. Lynn Evans for a look at a cameo ring originally uncovered in 1962.
