Overview
Join friends and neighbors to celebrate the start of the 2025 Madeline Island Museum season! Be among the first to experience the additions to the Passages exhibit, meet with longstanding and new staff, enjoy light snacks and beverages, and learn more about this season’s programs and events.
About the Passages Exhibit:
Madeline Island has long been a place of connection and courageous travelers. Learn more about the epic journeys of people through the Apostle Island archipelago and beyond through Passages, Ojibwe Migration to the Place Where the Food Grows on the Water. The 2025 Passages exhibit showcases even more stories of epic journeys around Madeline Island and Lake Superior.
During your visit, explore the Anishinaabe migration to Mooningwanekaaning, including Chief Buffalo’s journey from Madeline Island to Washington D.C., the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe, Eliza Morrison’s stories of travels around the Lake Superior region and more. Dugout and birchbark canoes, paintings by Carl Gawboy (Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe), and multi-media displays create a unique opportunity to experience Madeline Island as the center of passages to and from the island over time.
The Passages exhibit is sponsored in part by the Friends of the Madeline Island Museum with a generous contribution from the Coffin Family in memory of Robert P. Coffin.