Artifact Identification Day

Sunday, March 19, 2023 - 10:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

  • Dickson Mounds, Lewistown

Event Audience: 

Family
Adult

Fee: 

Free, donations appreciated

 

Museum staff and other experts will be available to identify your artifacts, rocks, fossils, animal bones, and perhaps anything else you may be curious about.  If you don’t have any items to identify, be sure to stop in any way to see these artifacts.  No appraisals will be given. 

Admission is free.  Registration is not required.  Food will be available for purchase courtesy of The Lunchwagon.

*Please note that the monthly Illinois Archaeology Lecture Series will not be held, but will return at its regularly scheduled time on April 16. 

Photograph of two blades from the Mackinaw Cache courtesy of the Illinois State Museum.

Photographic image of two blades from the Mackinaw Cache

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