Michael Parlante learned about Wampanoag history and culture from Frank James during times when they went exploring together. Michael’s collection of Native artifacts is currently featured in the front room of the Museum.

WELLFLEET — On the official seal of the town of Wellfleet, a party of pilgrims rows ashore in a dinghy as a crowd of indigenous people wait on the beach. The scene is labeled “1620,” and is encircled by the words “Town of Wellfleet Incorporated 1763.”

The summer 2022 exhibition looked at the ways Cape Codders have historically made use of the great natural resource that surrounds and defines us, the water.