'ksan historical village

We've visited the Ksan Historical Village when we've visited friends in Hazelton for Christmas 2014. Unfortunately the houses are closed for the winter season but it's been still impressive from the outside. They also have a shop where you can buy native arts/crafts etc. Very friendly staff. We will return in summer 2015.

This is an interesting museum with an interesting gift shop. We did not do the tour and we should have. We were allowed to visit the outside grounds and totem poles, but not all of the long houses. This was a mistake. The tour guide would have given us access to all buildings and some much needed commentary on the artifacts. The walk around the grounds and the totems was a pleasurable experience though.

We stayed in our RV unit at the campground associated with this attraction for 3 days. The museum and tour are very much worth the fee. Our guide was amazing. There are so many interesting things to see and learn about Gitxan culture. The location is stunning as well and the side trip from the highway is worth it. There is also a small old town there that is interesting and some great walking tours.

Highly recommended. The museum/gift shop is wonderful. It's not large but it's packed with historical items and the gift store has authentic handmade jewellery, cards, birch syrup, bent box kits, slippers, scarves. There is an art gallery upstairs. The items in the gift store are reasonably priced and go upwards in value. There is something for anyone, whether only having a small spending amount to those who want to spend big. We took the tour, Alice was our guide - what a lovely, knowledgeable and endearing woman. One feels they have known her forever. The exhibits are fascinating. Walking into the longhouse - you enter the dark building, it is cool and it smells like you've stepped back in time. We learned so much and enjoyed what Alice shared as well as what the taped recordings relayed. The artifacts are pieces of not only history but works of art. I highly, highly recommend the tour. Our group had some visitors from Germany as well as fellow Canadians and not one of us wanted the tour to end. We could have spent all day. Alice you made the tour come alive and we felt so welcome. Thank you. Highly, highly recommended for all ages.

..to walk back in history to see the past of the Gitxsan people and be brought up to the present time as we explored three buildings with a guide. We were the only English family paired up with a massive tour group from Germany, but our guide made sure we were receiving the same info even though she had to tailor it to the big group. Definitely worth the money to take the guided tour as you cannot see the real history without access to the three houses with the artifacts otherwise.

I loved it here.We were the only visitors and had the entire site to ourselves. I had always thought of 1st nation people as always being travellers in some way. This dispelled that myth for me . The Ksan village here was a permanent site in a lovely part of the countryside and the Ksan were traders in salmon, furs and silver trading with other 1st nation people and due to the remoteness of the site, were bypassed by the early white settlers so they were not discovered until much later and hence why so much of their history and tradition has been captured . the lodges were substantial and impressive as was the art . Glad we stopped - well worth the entrance fee

'Ksan Historical Village is a must stop for travellers on the Yellowhead Highway between Prince Rupert and Prince George. At New Hazelton travellers take #62, and pass over the Hagwilget Canyon Bridge, near the junction of the Bulkley & Skeena rivers--which provides a spectacular view of the deep valley. The reconstructed village site is devoted to making known the history and culture of the Gitxsan people. For a modest fee we were able to view ceremonial & utilitarian items (including cedar weavings, bent-wood boxes & button blankets in the Museum on our own), and then a guide took us on an intensive tour through a couple of the longhouses where, with the help of some audio-visuals, we were able to get a good understanding of their family life, the political life of the community, and the role played by ceremonies. Then we had time to browse through an excellent gift shop which has both souvenirs and beautifully crafted jewellery, pieces by Gitxsan carvers, artists and fibre artists, as well as some works by other well-known West Coast artists such as Susan Point.I have been to 'Ksan several times over the last 25 years, and have seen some changes, but I always come away feeling that I've learned something new about a remarkable people. Everyone at the village has always been knowledgeable, friendly and helpful, and both the museum items and the village reconstructions are very impressive.

5 log houses have been recreated. Only musume, 1 log house and outside grounds are free and open to guests. $10/person tour gets 45 min tour of everything. Part of tour is an audio recording tour that guide plays. Very well done.Great place for a lunch break and a stretch of the legs!

The replica of a village, guided tour and exhibits in the museum provided a good introduction to a culture that as visitors from Africa we had not been previously exposed to.Well signposted, we found the visit worth the 2-odd hour detour on our drive to Terrace.The $5 day pass provides access to the museum, gift shop and picnic area. Being on a restricted budget we were unsure of the value of an additional $5 for a guided tour through the 3 houses depicting living area, feast house and ttreasure house containing ceremonial costumes and masks. However, it was worthwhile. The guide was quite reserved but knowledgeable when answering questions. A little more experience and being more outgoing will enhance her value to the village. Within each of the houses there is a sound and light experience, explaining cultural practices and highlighting the exhibits. I would have liked more time to examine exhibits but the tours are designed to take 45 mins so there is not much time to dawdle since the next tour follows shortly. Exhibits in the houses differ from those in the museum.Unfortunately we did not see carvers at work or traditional dancers.Gift shop carries a wide range of craft and commercially produced goods. Walk to the viewpoint to see the confluence of the Bulkley and Skeena rivers.

The tour of the village was very informative if a bit automated. The crafts store had very high quality works of art as well as more commerical items for sale. One building housed a group of First Nations carvers developing masks and their workmanship provided the opportunity to see real artists at work.While you had ot travel off the highway some distance it was well worth it for the opportunity to see how another civilization treats communal life.

It is an impressive village, but you cannot take pictures inside the houses...The gift shop has a lot of nice souvenirs with reasonable prices...There is a lot of authentic artifacts and beautiful totems...The totems could use a ''painting refresh''...I would recommend to visit this museum...

The village and museum are run by the Gitxsan people to inform visitors about their culture and heritage. The replicated village shows typical features that would have been found in the past, including houses, a smoke house, a fish cache and totem poles. There are six houses (including the House of Carving, Silkscreen Studio, Eagle House, Treasure House, Feast House, and House of the Distant Past) and a museum. Tours are available (adults are $10 and students & seniors are $8.50 plus tax). The museum also has a gift shop.Although not as famous as the Haida or Tsimshin Nations, the Gitxsan Nation shows us a number of aspects of their culture from pre-European contact until now. They share some common cultural features with their neighboring nations, so, although they do cannot show us all cultural facets of every Northwest Coast nation, they give us a good look at one of them. I know of no other reconstructed village that displays typical architecture, art and other parts of Northwest Coast culture that adults and children can easily see and enjoy.The museum's gift shop offers books and souvenirs, and I enjoyed bringing home authentic looking prints as well as not-so-authentic coffee mugs, coasters, and other tourist claptrap.If you drive the Yellowhead Highway (Hwy 16) between Prince Rupert and Prince George, I highly recommend stopping in.

On vous demande si vous voulez la visite libre ou la visite guidée, mais on ne vous dit pas que vous ne pouvez pas entrer dans les batiments en dehors de la visite guidée. c'est à la limite de l'escroquerie ! Il y a très peu de choses à voir. à éviter.

Im Ksan Historical Village wird gezeigt wie der wie der Stamm der Ksan früher lebten und es wird deren Rituale näher gebracht. Ich finde es wichtig und gut, wenn man einen Einblick im leben der First Nation gewinnen kann.

Auf unserer Strecke von Jasper nach Prince Rupert waren wir über jede "Sehenswürdigkeit" dankbar, ees gab für uns nicht viel auf der Strecke. So besuchten wir auch das rekonstruierte First Nation Museumsdorf. Man findet das Freilichtmuseum an der der Einmündung des Bulkley River in den Skeena. Hier hat sich früher ein Siedlungsplatz der Gitskan-Indianer befunden. Vom Parkplatz führt der Weg zu zwei kleineren Totempfählen, dann kommt man an einem Zederkanu vorbei zu einer Reihe von sieben Langhäusern. Früher bewohnte jeweils ein Klan ein Langhaus. Das erste Gebäude ist das Museum mit einem Giftshop, hier bezahlt man den Eintritt für das Dorf. Museum ist das erste Gebäude in der Reihe der Langhäuser. Hier müssen Sie den Zugang zum Dorf zu zahlen. Man hat die Möglichkeit nur das Dorf und die Totempfähle anzusehen, oder an einem geführten Rundgang teilzunehmen. Die geführte Tour beinhaltet den Zugang zu einigen der Langhäuser. Leider war die nächste Führung zu spät für uns angesetzt, so machten wir nur den Rundgang durch das Dorf und die Besichtigung der Totempfähle. Sicher wären der Besuch vom Museum und eine Führung besser gewesen, aber unser Rundgang war auch sehr informativ.