Frisco Native American Museum & Natural History Center

06/22/2026

National Pollinator Week (Gallery Images)

It's National Pollinator Week and we're all about encouraging our native pollinator friends! Our support of our native pollinators didn't start with the project we mentioned in our previous update on National Public Garden Week. It started with planting Green-headed Cone Flower (Rudbeckia laciniata) in the tiny garden next to the front door. These flowers are very common wild flowers and sometimes even seen as an annoyance because of how they can grow tall and spread quickly....

It’s National Pollinator Week and we’re all about encouraging our native pollinator friends! Our support of our native pollinators didn’t start with the project we mentioned in ou…

06/20/2026

What Is a Moth Night — and Why Do We Make Such a “To-Do” About It?

This post is the second in a special series by Backyard Butterflies co-founder and Executive Director, Lior S. Carlson. Here on the Outer Banks, where the ocean is never far — let us allure you, like a siren's song, to come and experience something genuinely strange and beautiful in its own unassuming way. Imagine standing in the dark, watching creatures drift in from the night that look like nothing you've ever seen before....

This post is the second in a special series by Backyard Butterflies co-founder and Executive Director, Lior S. Carlson. Here on the Outer Banks, where the ocean is never far — let us allure you, li…

06/10/2026

MOTHS: What You’re Missing After Dark

An obsessive's guide to the creatures of darkness, transformation, and astonishing beauty I Love Moths Hello, my name is Lior S. Carlson, and I love MOTHS. Like, genuinely, enthusiastically, stay-up-until-2AM-staring-at-a-sheet-in-the-woods love moths. Over the next 14 days or so, I'll be guest blogging all about MOTHS in anticipation and countdown to the 2nd Annual Moth Night at the Museum....

An obsessive’s guide to the creatures of darkness, transformation, and astonishing beauty I Love Moths Hello, my name is Lior S. Carlson, and I love MOTHS. Like, genuinely, enthusiastically, …

06/09/2026

If you HAD to choose, which native plant do you like more? Simply react with the 👍or the ❤️ to cast your vote!

06/06/2026

We've got new blooms popping from the pollinator garden we put in last year!

New gardens don't always look fantastic the first year. They're still spaced out and this is the first time the flowers are facing the world with established roots.

But this is an excellent sign for the future! We can just picture it next year...beautifully lush 😍

06/03/2026

Insect Repellant Awareness Day & Beautyberry

Today, June 3rd, is National Insect Repellant Awareness Day! Though the discussion is usually for visitors to our sunny island in summer circles around sunscreen, insect repellant is equally important! Living in the United States, we often have a skewed view of the significance on the impact of illness transmitted by insect bites. We either have flailing and wailing about diseases like Chagas that we're unlikely to ever encounter unless we spend time camping in the Central American nations, or we have a very low key murmuring of concern about common diseases as if the concern is so far from a possibility that insect repellant is a showing of weakness....

Today, June 3rd, is National Insect Repellant Awareness Day! Though the discussion is usually for visitors to our sunny island in summer circles around sunscreen, insect repellant is equally import…

05/28/2026

A New Way To Support Your Favorite Native Museum On The Outer Banks!

We've been hard at work on the website and we've got a bunch of new products! Stickers, t-shirts, hoodies, drink coozies, and MORE that ship directly to your door!

All items (with exception of the puzzles) are printed by a small business also in Eastern North Carolina too!

> Get a sticker with our 40th Anniversary to put on a new water bottle

> Order a moth night shirt and wear it to our event at the end of June

> Pick up a drawstring bag with the popular "We Are All Related" design to gather shells from the beach.

We've got something for everyone!

Want something and don't see it available? Drop a comment and our design lady will try and work her magic!

05/22/2026

WE HAVE EXCITING NEWS!

The 2026 Best of North Carolina Awards have been issued and thanks to all of you lovely people that helped vote for us we've made it as Best of NC for Regional Museums!

Thank you all so very much for your support! We got here because of YOU!

05/20/2026

We had an unexpected treat Tuesday afternoon.

The last visitors of the day were two lovely women, Andrea and Margie. Sisters coming to vacation and check out the museum.

Andrea was looking at the flutes we recently got in from Joe Mareka (you may recall we posted him playing for us recently as well). When she asked permission to play, we didn't expect her to give the flute such a lovely voice!

She played several songs for us as she debated whether she and the gorgeous flute of maple with turquoise inlay were destined for each other.

As she continued to deliberate, she told us how she's part of a group larger group with tribal connections that helps indigenous women rediscover their connection outside of Western views of womanhood!

When she made the final decision to make the flute a new companion, she graciously allowed us to video a song to share with all of you.

We hope you enjoy the experience from wherever you are as much as we did!

05/18/2026

If you HAD to choose, which piece with beads do you prefer? Simply react with the 👍or the ❤️ to cast your vote!