The Campaign for the

Tomaquag Museum

A place where the past transforms the future.

Social Justice

Social Justice

Protecting & Respecting the Environment

Protecting & Respecting the Environment

Community Benefit & Quality of Life

Community Benefit & Quality of Life

Education & Truth Telling

Education & Truth Telling

 
 

Why a new museum now?

The new museum will allow many to find a place to learn and engage. Our collections, cultural belongings and archives will find a safe, new home here for future generations to experience. 

Tomaquag museum director receives National Medal for museum science from Michele Obama

The Tomaquag Museum has exceeded expectations in the eyes of experts for a very long time. In 2016, First Lady Michelle Obama presented the Tomaquag Museum with a National Medal for Museum and Library Service. The National Medal is the highest award U.S. museums and libraries can receive. Tomaquag is the only museum in Rhode Island so far to earn it.

Great expectations

This was always our guarantee:
a visit to Tomaquag would change your mind and heart.

The Tomaquag Museum is different...

Since its founding in 1958, the Tomaquag Museum has been Indigenous-led and ... and that fact alone makes it special.

Our educators not only interpret for you the museum’s many cultural belongings ... they also share their own personal stories of growing up Indigenous in today’s America.

The Tomaquag experience is authentic ... and unforgettable. First-time visitors enter with their preconceptions and cultural stereotypes ... and leave profoundly moved, their attitudes forever changed.