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Makah Cultural & Research Center

Makah Cultural & Research Center, a museum in Washington
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Makah Cultural & Research Center, a museum in Washington
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Makah Cultural & Research Center is a museum in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 8 m. Ellis Mountain stands 809 m to the southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Neah Bay Big Chair, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Strait of Juan de Fuca Highway - SR 112 passes 1.9 miles off. 33 named places lie within 25 miles, 18 of them named summits.

About

The story

The Makah Museum, also known as the Makah Cultural and Research Center, is an archaeological and anthropological museum on the Makah Indian reservation in Neah Bay, Washington. It houses and interprets artifacts from the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site, a Makah village partly buried by a mudslide at Lake Ozette around 1750, providing a snapshot of pre-contact tribal life. The museum includes a replica long house and thousands of artifacts of interest to academics and laypeople, including canoes, basketry, whaling and fishing gear. The museum was created under the leadership of tribal chairman Edward Eugene Claplanhoo and opened in 1979, soon after the Lake Ozette site was unearthed.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1979.

Wikidata Q6738598, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Built
1979
Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.36825, -124.59876

Overlooks nearby

Around it

33 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 18
Historic sites: 4
  • Makah Veterans Memorial: 1.2 mi
  • Peter Roose Homestead: 15.1 mi
  • Dickey Camp (Site): 21.9 mi
  • Norwegian Memorial: 23.2 mi
Parks: 3
  • Diah Veterans Park - Fort Núñez Gaona: 1.2 mi
  • Clallam Bay West County Park: 17.0 mi
  • Lake Pleasant Community Beach County Park: 24.3 mi
Attractions: 2
Waterfalls: 2
Lighthouses: 2
Museums: 1
  • Butler's Nature Museum: 0.9 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • Point of Arches State Park Property: 11.3 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Makah Cultural & Research Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ellis MountainSE 138°809 m19.5 mi
Stolzenburg MountainSE 146°650 m15.7 mi
Deadmans HillSE 138°643 m24.7 mi
Snag PeakSSE 162°617 m11.6 mi
Tsoo-Yess PeakS 177°600 m5.8 mi
Sekiu MountainSSE 151°592 m12.2 mi
Tyee HillSSE 149°539 m22.7 mi
Makah PeaksS 189°501 m5.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2218:5019:31
June solstice05:1820:3521:24
September equinox07:0618:3719:18
December solstice08:0815:3216:27

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424244475256596057514541
Precip in15.69.711.88.14.23.31.62.64.610.715.313.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Quillayute AP, 30 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/193161561

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