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MuseumsSite Name: Angel Mounds Museum Alternative Name: Angel Mounds Historical Site MuseumCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 35.798 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Great Lakes Midwest Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Evansville, Indiana Nearest Village: Newburgh, Indiana
Latitude: 37.943900N Longitude: 87.451W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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The Museum adjoins the Angel Mounds town site. It is directly opposite the location of the prehistoric stockade opening. The building has been designed to resemble a truncated pyramid - the classic shape of a Mississippian Mound.
The site and museum are owned by the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. It and the Angel Mounds Town site are open Tuesdays through Sundays. The website contains the times and directions. A nominal fee is charged.
The museum includes a short film on the site and multiple displays arranged topically to show the history and culture of the Mississippian people who built and maintained the town. The museum contains a large room with lifesize figures and buildings that reproduce portions of the town at its heyday. This "recreation" is mingled with displays of actual finds from the site, and explanitory information in posters and booklets describing the meaning of the physical evidence. (The website photos of these figures does not do them justice. The effect is more pleasing in person.)
There are some interesting displays on how the site was acquired for the state and how the main excavation was done in the 1930's and 40's under the direction of Glenn Black, a self taught archeologist. Black was one of the first archeologists to use magnetometer readings to search for underground structural information.
After viewing the museum you exit to a footbridge that crosses the slough and enters the town site itself.
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