In 1979, the Native Indian Youth in Museums project began placing Musqueam teenagers in the University of British Columbia's Museum of Anthropology to teach them about traditional coastal Indian culture, and train them to share this information with museum visitors. Co-sponsored by the Native Indian Youth Advisory Society and the Native Youth Program (NYP), the project is administered in two phases: a summer phase of 2 months when six to eight students work full-time in the museum, and a winter phase when they work Sunday afternoons. The total annual budget is $13,000-$15,000. Initially, the students were trained exclusively in the traditional uses of the red cedar tree, the resource used most by the Northwest Coast Indians. The students' repertoire has been expanded over the years to include lectures or guided walks introducing the museum's totem pole collection and local ethnobotany, and presentations on Indian fishing and the Potlatch (a ceremonial institution). Factors to be considered in establishing a similar project (training, staff time, how the public views the students, etc.) are discussed. Risks and benefits to the students working in the NYP, and their views of the project are also examined. Finally, it is noted that often students' school work improves after working with the NYP. (JMM)