Five years and $19 million later, the Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History has reopened. It now holds more than 1,000 artifacts, some never shown before. Haa’yuups, head of the House of Takiishtakamlthat-h of the Huupa’chesat-h First Nation, and Peter Whiteley, the curator of North American ethnology at the museum, led the redesign, hoping to better encapsulate the perspectives of the 10 nations whose cultures are on display. Even with extensive work to make sure that the ANHM does the artifacts justice, many question whether a museum is the right place for them at all. Haa’yuups himself doesn’t think so, but given that large-scale reparations are unlikely in the near future, he believes the next best thing was to accept the museum’s invitation to help with the renovation. “I wanted the treasures to be contextualized in a rich way and seen as the wealth of our people that had been stolen away,” Haa’yuups told The New York Times. “I wanted to see every bit of background in the display cases filled with words of the people who lived there.” Inaugurated in 1899, the Northwest Coast Hall was the first gallery to open at the museum. —Clara Molot