Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum in Hendry County, Florida

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Hendry County attraction

Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum

Hendry County · South Florida & the Keys

The Seminole Tribe's own museum on the Big Cypress Reservation, with a mile of boardwalk through a 60-acre cypress dome.

ABOUT THIS PLACE

The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum is run by the Seminole Tribe of Florida on the Big Cypress Seminole Reservation at 34725 West Boundary Road, Clewiston, about eighteen miles from exit 49 off Interstate 75. It is the tribe's own museum, telling its own history rather than somebody else's version of it. The exhibit hall runs to 5,000 square feet and carries the story from 1510 forward, with the Green Corn Dance and other religious practice explained, and artifacts including a deerskin coat that belonged to Osceola. A film called We Seminole introduces the culture. Outside, a mile-long boardwalk loops through a 60-acre cypress dome, with markers along it explaining which plants were used for what and how the people lived on this ground. On the way around are recreated Ceremonial Grounds with traditional chickees set around a stickball court, and a Seminole Village where artisans work at patchwork, beading and basketweaving while visitors watch. The museum opens 9 to 5 and closes on holidays; the boardwalk shuts at 4. Children under four and tribal members come in free

GETTING THERE

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