Hibulb Cultural Center Fund
The Hibulb Cultural Center is a place that honors and respects the spirit and memory of our people. The interior offers a rich diversity of materials from Mother Earth. Slate that is compressed clay of ages past, cedar, fir and hemlock from the forests of today. Natural and sustainable materials are integrated in harmony. A play of textured light illuminates the interior and reflects the patterns of the day and season. Inherent on the east side are forms that represent the land, the hills, mountains, rivers and streams. To the west or the water side is a series of breaking waves, with the ripples of breaking waves coming onto the beach. The “heart” of the museum is the longhouse, which symbolizes the historic center of living and power prior to western contact.
Why it is important:
The Hibulb Cultural Center will offer many educational programs making it possible to expand outreach to surround communities. Program focus will be on:
- Educational programs for school children.
- Restoring and offering an expanded permanent exhibit collection.
- Increase the number, size, and types of temporary and traveling exhibition offered to the community.
- Provide valuable research and archival resources on Native cultures and the environment to teachers, artists, scholars, and collectors.
- Contribute to the economic development and cultural vitality of the Tulalip Tribes.
Performances, educational programs for all age groups will be provided, interpretive natural history trails and programs will be developed, special events and presentations will be available for all tribal members and surrounding community to enjoy and learn from.
How the Tulalip Foundation helps with this issue
For the past, fifteen years, the cultural resource department has cataloged over 3,000 artifacts, documents and photos, all of which will make up the permanent exhibit for the cultural center. With the newly construction collection facility opportunity exists to collect and curate additional archaeological material, objects of material culture, arts, crafts, documents, publications, photographs, and audio media – past and present – for purposes of preservation, documentation, education, exhibition, and research. Our archives protect a wealth of documentary materials pertains to the history of the Snohomish, Snoqualmie, and Skykomish tribes, and other tribes and bands signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott of 1855.
The Hibulb Cultural Center is the main project currently being focus on by the Tulalip Foundation. The Hibulb Cultural Center will include:
- A 23, 000 sq. ft energy efficient building
- A 4,000 sq. ft. Permanent Exhibit Gallery, which provides visitors with multi-media and interactive displays that, explores ancient and contemporary Tulalip Tribes culture.
- A 2,000 sq. ft. Temporary Exhibit Gallery that will support the Cultural Centers commitment to showcasing arts and culture from the past to the present. The inaugural exhibit Warriors, We Remember: Tulalip Veterans will be a celebration and honoring of those tribal members who served our great country.
- Two Classrooms with direct access to the natural history preserve
- A Library
- A rendition of a traditional Long House that will host special events, meetings, and films, plus provide a multi-dimensional view of how the typical family lived pre-contact.
- A Gift Shop offering traditional and contemporary arts and crafts
- A 42 acres Natural History Preserve offering natural trails, picnic areas, and observation desks.
- State-of-the-art systems will be installed for the security and special care required for the collection. This system will include temperature and humidity control, security cameras, special lighting, and fire suppression.
For more information and to see this fund in action please visit the Hibulb Cultural Center page in the funds in action section. |