The Nah Tah Wahsh Virtual Museum is intended to be a learning experience for our students and community that we are sharing with the global community. We would welcome input from people who are knowledgeable about the Great Lakes Native Americans and would enjoy visiting and documenting items in museums that have exhibits related to this subject. Please email us if you would like to help.

This project started with our school's participation in the creation of the NMAI Virtual Tour, an opportunity provided for us as members of the 4Directions Challenge Grant. Our two day visit to the National Museum of the American Indian sparked a fire that has traveled throughout our elementary and middle school classrooms.

We had been struggling to get students involved in our Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant, "Project: History on the Web."  While observing our students as they created QTVR movies of artifacts and researched them, we realized that a virtual museum would be the ideal way to get student and community participation in the grant. As a result, we have committed to visiting and photo shooting one museum a year. We will also be organizing class projects that involve the photography and documentation of private collections in the area. 

In addition to providing an online resource about Great Lakes Native Americans, we will share information about how the museum projects are done and suggestions we came up with to improve upcoming excursions.