Plimoth Patuxet, Plymouth MA
Currently in design, this new Indigenous Program building will support the outdoor living history museum’s story of profound change and cultural persistence in the Algonquian homelands of the Northeast. Sited to enhance the visitor journey, it features an entry footbridge through the woodland, exhibit space for historical and contemporary Indigenous art and artifacts, and an intimate amphitheater for performances and demonstrations by artisans, as well as audio-visual presentations from Indigenous knowledge-bearers and culture-keepers. After evaluating several sites, we settled on a promontory above the Historic Patuxet Homesite that creates the opportunity to open the amphitheater to the east, highlighting that the Wampanoag are ‘People of the Dawn.’ We’re having fun working with Museum staff to find materials inspired by the tactile, hand-hewn feel of traditional structures like the wetu that visitors experience on the Homesite.
