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.
Music is an important part of the Christmas season for many people. What Christmas music would the residents of Michilimackinac have known?
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:
The 65th field season of archaeology has wrapped up at Colonial Michilimackinac.
We’ve long interpreted Michilimackinac in the 1770s, toward the end of the British period of occupation. However, Michilimackinac was occupied by the French for more than 40 years. Here’s a story about its rocky beginning in this area.
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!
One of the next major projects tor Mackinac State Historic Parks will be the reconstruction of a unit on the Southwest Rowhouse. To prepare, MSHP staff have been going over the archaeological records and artifacts from the 1960s, when the unit was originally excavated.
