On March 1, 1910, the deadliest avalanche in North American history swept down the snowy Cascades, burying two trains and killing 96 people. The Wenatchee Valley Museum is offering a guided tour of the Wellington site from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. The tour also will visit several other sites between Leavenworth...

2018-19 Wenatchee Valley Environmental Film & Lecture Series Award-winning musician and fiber artist Lauralee Northcott’s presentation included the performance of original and classic western songs along with poetry inspired by her time in the wildnerness. She draws on 20 years of experience as a guide in Washington State in her performance art. This free family-friendly event...

Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums and cultural institutions across the country provide free entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket. The Museum Day ticket provides free admission for two people on Saturday, September 22, 2018. Click Get a Ticket to search participating museums and download your...

As a naturalist, author, and conservationist, Mardy Murie was an ordinary American who was an exceptional advocate for wilderness and is now known as the mother of the American Conservation movement. She and her husband, Olaus, worked as advocates for wilderness conservation and were instrumental in the establishment of the Artic National Wildlife Refuge Act...

Join the Wenatchee Downtown Association’s Young Professionals Week at the museum! We’ll be hosting a trivia night. Form your teams in advance or meet your team when you get here. Making new friends is just part of the fun of YP Week! Doors open at 6 p.m. Admission is free. No-host bar and snacks available....

Dave and Sandy Gellatly in memory of David N. Gellatly, Jr. invite you to join them for an organ concert featuring organist Dave Wickerham. A California native, Wickerham’s career has spanned the country, from training in Arizona to decades of work in Chicago, Wisconsin, Las Vegas, Florida, and Michigan. His concerts have taken him on tours...

Browse this featured exhibit featuring a representative selection of photographic prints from Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian Project, a 20-volume publication compiled by Curtis between 1907 and 1930 documenting the remaining intact North American tribes of the American West. Enhancing the photographic exhibit are interpretative text panels and relevant displays of objects from...

Jim O’Connor of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), one of the preeminent experts on the Missoula Floods, and Brent Cunderla will be your guides on a tour focused on the ice age floods and glaciation in the Columbia River Valley from Moses Coulee to Pateros. The tour, slated for 9 am to 5 pm...

Join Native American elder Randy Lewis for a traditional blessing of water and salmon at the opening of the Edward S. Curtis exhibit. One of the Plateau tribes’ most significant ceremonies is the First Salmon Feast, marking the arrival of salmon to traditional fishing grounds. Lewis will retell origin stories related to the Creator’s calling...

This film documents the 1931 record-breaking Transpacific flight of Miss Veedol using modern footage combined with historic clips. Voortex productions has updated the story of an amazing aeronautical feat that has become part of Wenatchee Valley legend. Piloted by Clyde Pangborn and co-piloted by Hugh Herndon, Jr, the Bellanca aircraft become the first airplane to...

While Edward Curtis’ mission was to document the lives of American Indians, Wenatchee’s own Columbia River Archaeological Society focused on a singular island, destined to disappear behind the Columbia’s first dam in 1931.  Rock Island rapids was one of the great fisheries of the Columbia – a place of deafening sound that shook you to...

The museum will host an all-day weaving workshop led by Wanapum elder and master weaver Angela Buck. The workshop with feature the versatile tule, or bulrush, as raw material, to create a sitting mat that can be used for yoga, picnics or even as an insulating layer on the dining room table. Wanapum tribal elders skilled...

Award-winning journalist Andy Dappen shares the story of two Alaskan canoe trips undertaken by Dappen and his equally adventurous brother Alan. The first, undertaken in 1974 with a group of college buddies, was a 6-week trip spanning 800 miles of coastal waterways in wood-strip canoes constructed by the Dappen brothers. It was cut short in...

Paul Klee, a Swiss German artist, known for his important contribution to modern art in the form of his lectures on color theory. He was a printmaker and draftsman but his paintings, which are at times fantastic, childlike, or witty, display his unique style that is influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Join us for...