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The Haskell Cultural Center and Museum is an educational and historical resource located on the Haskell Indian Nations University campus in Lawrence, Kansas. The Cultural Center is open to the public.

History
A proposal to fund the $1.3 million building was approved by the American Indian College Fund, with donations from the B.K. Cypress Log Homes from Bronson, FL; and cash donations from the Kellogg and Lily Foundations. To place the cypress logs from Florida in Kansas, a log raising ceremony was conducted in 2001 by bringing in Florida Seminole elders to bless the site of the new building. The Center officially opened in September 2002.

About
The Cultural Center offers exhibits, contains archives related to Haskell history, and items of interest regarding American Indian and Alaska Native communities, and sponsors special events.

The Cultural Center houses more than 2,000 items. These items include traditional clothing and headdresses, jewelry, baskets, pottery, beadwork, and art from a wide variety of Tribes. The artists represented in the Center include Dick West, Alan Houser, Danny Miller, Louis Shipshee, Allen Knowshisgun, Dorothy Nez, and Franklin Gritts. In addition, the Center collects artwork created by former and current Haskell students.

The collections are cataloged into the Interior Collections Management System, a database for museum collections. The Cultural Center's collections are managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior – Indian Affairs, and are available for research and study.

Permanent Exhibits and Notable Collections
The Center is the site for several permanent exhibits, including “Honoring Our Children Through Seasons of Sacrifice, Survival, Change, and Celebration.” "Honoring Our Children" tells the story of Haskell's transformation from a school teaching basic skills like domestic cooking, cleaning, sewing, and farming; to elementary level classes; to high school level classes; to a vocational-technical school; a junior college; and finally a four-year university for Native students.

"Beyond the Reach of Time and Change: The Photographs of Frank Rinehart and Adolph Muhr, American Indian Portraits 1898-1900" is also housed at the Haskell Cultural Center. This is a display of platinum photographs that document the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress in Omaha, NE, in 1898. While Rinehart made photographs of the World’s Fair events and buildings, Muhr photographed the people who attended the Indian Congress from over 35 different nations. Haskell owns the 809 glass plate negatives that were the result of this documentation.