of Skidegate: Chaatl, Cumshewa, Skedans, SGang Gwaii, and Tanu. They were created respectively by Norman Price, Garner Moody, Guujaaw, Jim Hart, Tim Boyko and Giitsxaa. They were raised in 2001. Principal spaces in the Centre include: Welcome House (or Stlaay Daw Naay) The Carving House (or Gyaa K'id Naay) - a large, open-walled building designed to house local artists working on monumental poles, canoes and other large work. The Canoe House (or Skaajang Naay) - exhibits on the Haida's historical mode of transportation, food and resource gathering, and trade. It houses noted Haida artist Bill Reid’s 50 ft cedar canoe Loo Taas, and its full scale fiberglass replica Loo-plex. Both canoes are used for ceremonies, weddings and the annual Skidegate Days canoe races. Ongoing projects undertaken in this space include paddle-making and bentwood box construction. Performance House (or Gina Guu Aahliuu Naay) - an amphitheater that can seat up to 250 people in a room designed like a traditional Haida style dugout longhouse. Bill Reid Teaching Centre (or Aahl Sgwaansing Naay) - studio and classrooms for Haida apprentices to learn their craft from Haida master carvers and designers, and for special training seminars and university-accredited courses in fine arts. Haida Gwaii Museum The Queen Charlotte Islands Museum Society was established in 1973 to create a museum for the Islands. The museum opened in 1976 and conducts research on the Haida peoples and culture, as well as acquiring artifacts, archival records, and reference material relating to the Haida and to European settlement of the islands. The museum's collection includes artifacts and documents from 1890 to present, but predominantly between 1900-1990. The Museum was expanded when the Haida Heritage Centre was constructed and is now part of the Centre. The museum uses a chronological layout for the galleries: pre-(European) contact ("In the Beginning"), post-contact ("Contact & Conflict"), to contemporary ("Our Way of Life"). Gallery exhibits showcase pieces of Haida history and contemporary life, and Haida art and culture (including button blankets, argillite carvings, and totem poles), natural history of the Islands, and the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Haida Heritage Site. An exhibitions gallery features art shows during the year. Prominently features in the Museum are various totem poles, both contemporary and ones carved in the 19th Century. In August of 2022, the Haida Gwaii Museum added priceless Haida Nation artifacts to its collection when the Buxton Museum and Art Gallery