Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center
The Museum and Wells House are open free to the public from 4 to 8 PM on the First Friday of the month. On September 2, join us at the Museum at 6:30 PM for a presentation by Randy Dasho on the Wellington Train Disaster, the deadliest avalanche in North Amercian history. Meet us at...
On March 1, 1910, the deadliest avalanche in North American history swept down the snowy Cascades, burying two trains and killing 96 people.
Randy Dasho will be at the museum to talk about the historic event as part of First Friday. This is a free event. No registration is required.
Randy Dasho will lead a guided tour of the Wellington site. The tour also visits several other sites between Leavenworth and Stevens Pass that played important roles in the history of the Great Northern Railway Company.
Join us for Family Saturday each month on the Saturday following First Friday. The Museum offers free admission on Family Saturday from 10 AM to 4 PM. Explore the exhibits, listen to the pipe organ, follow the model train over its tracks, and discover more history, arts, and culture of our region. Visit the museum...
Join us on Thursday, September 8 at 7 PM as we partner with Wenatchee Confluence Rotary Club for our Environmental Film and Speaker Series to show "Eating our way to Extinction." This film takes audiences on a cinematic journey around the world, from the depths of the Amazon rainforests to the Taiwanese Mountains, the Mongolian...
Native Heritage Tour, The Plateau Through Native American Eyes - Explore culturally significant locations with Native American guide, Randy Lewis.
You and your microbes are invited to the public opening of Zoo in You: The Human Microbiome on Saturday, September 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM. Trillions of microbes make their homes inside our bodies, and we wouldn’t be able to survive without each other! Zoo in You, invites guests of all ages to...
The Wells House and the Wenatchee Valley Symphony Orchestra present Concerts on the Wells House Lawn. Featuring: September 14 - WVS Flutes and Clarinets Bring a chair or a blanket and enjoy an evening of music. We will have wine available for purchase. All concerts start at 7:00 and are free. All groups...
This members' only event gives our members exclusive access to the Zoo in You Exhibit and hands-on programming. All ages are welcome and encouraged to attend. Join us on Friday, September 16 for a night of microbe themed food and drinks, a fun talk from local Research Molecular Biologist Tracy Somera and an exhibit scavenger...
The tour will head up the Wenatchee River Valley to Lake Wenatchee and look at everything from Chumstick sandstone, to the glacial features from both the Icicle Creek and Lake Wenatchee Glaciers. See the Leavenworth fault, identify glacial moraines, discuss how streams change with time and examine 90 million years old igneous rocks and even older metamorphic rocks!
This is a two-hour generative workshop focused on all steps of the writing process. Come prepared to go where our local history leads you, and be prepared to write and share. We will look at specific examples of historical fiction to learn from and discuss the genre in context with others. All genres, age 15+, all writing backgrounds welcome.
Native Heritage Tour, The Plateau Through Native American Eyes - Explore culturally significant locations starting with the Peshastin Pinnacles and heading up the Icicle with Native American guide Randy Lewis.
Celebrate the Museum and enjoy the traveling exhibit Zoo in You from OMSI! Limited Capacity. Tickets are $75 for members and $100 for non-members PURCHASE TICKETS Beverage Vendors: Eagle Creek Winery, Silvara Cellars, Leony's Cellars, Stemilt Creek Winery, Esther Bricques Winery, Del Rosario Winery, Errant Cellars, Jones of Washington, Plain Cellars, Patterson Cellars, CR Sandidge Wines,...
Join us on Saturday’s in October for this drop-in program to assemble a beaded bracelet representing microbe DNA. Learn how the base pairs of DNA partner in specific ways. Visitors will use beads to assemble DNA jewelry according to the genetic codes of different bacteria. This free event is a drop-in program. Stop by the...
