Aquinnah Cultural Center

Aquinnah Cultural Center is a non-profit museum and education center, based in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, dedicated to preserving and promoting Aquinnah Wampanoag history, culture and contributions on Martha’s Vineyard.

History

Aquinnah Cultural Center was founded in 1998. In 2006, the Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop Homestead, a historic homestead built in 1890 by a Wampanoag-Surinamese American Edwin DeVries Vanderhoop, was restored and reopened as the Aquinnah Cultural Center.
The ACC is located near the Gay Head lighthouse.
The Aquinnah Cultural Center is the home of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Museum.

Mission

The Aquinnah Cultural Center's mission is to preserve, educated, and document the Aquinnah Wampanoag self-defined art, history, culture and contributions of the past, present and future.