(Photo by Anthony Leone)
By staff reports
FRISCO — The Frisco Native American Museum will offer free admission during its regular hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, with the donation of a shelf-stable food item.
The museum houses Native American items from across the country, as well as a “special exhibit room dedicated to the tribes of the Outer Banks,” according to a Wednesday press release from the Frisco Native American Museum.
Canned foods, such as chili, soup, stews and vegetables, boxed foods, pasta, protein bars and protein drinks are examples of accepted food donations, all of which will go to the Hatteras Food Pantry, according to the release.
The special event honors past Smithsonian Museum Days, according to the release.
Smithsonian Magazine sponsored an annual Museum Day, on which “participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket,” according to the magazine’s website.
The last Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day detailed on its website was Sept. 17, 2022.
The Frisco Native American Museum has participated for 20 years, since Museum Day started, according to spokesperson Barbara Miller.
“For some reason they aren’t doing it this year,” Miller said. “We didn’t want to let it go, so we figured, well, we’ll do it, and…we’ll get something for the food banks because things have been hard this year.”
For more information about the Frisco Native American Museum, visit its website at
www.nativeamericanmuseum.org or visit its Facebook page
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