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The C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa will host a two-day event to introduce new exhibits and features Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13. “Chucalissa Spring ... A New Season Begins” will run Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children.

On both days, Chucalissa will feature the following:

Hands-On Archaeology Laboratory Exhibit

• Opening of the Hands-on Archaeology Laboratory exhibit. Visitors will experience the stages that artifacts pass through from the time of  excavation to when they are placed in a museum display. Individual stations will display information about American Indians that has been learned by analyzing the wide variety of artifacts recovered.

Choctaw Heritage Exhibit

• A temporary exhibit of artifacts from Poverty Point, a World Heritage prehistoric site in northeast Louisiana, will continue through May 28.

•  Guided tours of the Chucalissa mounds, plaza, and nature trail

Artifacts from Poverty Point

On Sunday at 2 p.m., Catherine Hammons, a graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Memphis, will present her research on Mississippian Culture Figurines.

Operated by the University of Memphis, the C.H. Nash Museum at Chucalissa serves as a gateway to understanding the science of archaeology and the interpretation of Native American history. The museum exhibits interpret the prehistory of the Mid-South and contemporary Southeastern Indian cultures.

Chucalissa is located at 1785 Indian Village Drive in southwest Memphis. For a map and directions, go online to http://cas.memphis.edu/chucalissa/contact.htm

For more information, call Museum Director Robert Connolly at 901-785-3160.