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...

Join Haunted Theater Wenatchee at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center for a mysterious tour. This will be a story-driven, live, interactive, dark, and spooky walk through the Museum, including some areas normally off-limits to the public. Get your tickets at the Museum Gift Shop, $10 per person through October 24th or $12 at...

Join Haunted Theater Wenatchee at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center for a mysterious tour. This will be a story-driven, live, interactive, dark, and spooky walk through the Museum, including some areas normally off-limits to the public. Get your tickets at the Museum Gift Shop, $10 per person through October 24th or $12 at...

Join Haunted Theater Wenatchee at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center for a mysterious tour. This will be a story-driven, live, interactive, dark, and spooky walk through the Museum, including some areas normally off-limits to the public. Get your tickets at the Museum Gift Shop, $10 per person through October 24th or $12 at...

Join Haunted Theater Wenatchee at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center for a mysterious tour. This will be a story-driven, live, interactive, dark, and spooky walk through the Museum, including some areas normally off-limits to the public. Get your tickets at the Museum Gift Shop, $10 per person through October 24th or $12 at...

Join Haunted Theater Wenatchee at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center for a mysterious tour. This will be a story-driven, live, interactive, dark, and spooky walk through the Museum, including some areas normally off-limits to the public. Get your tickets at the Museum Gift Shop, $10 per person through October 24th or $12 at...

Join Haunted Theater Wenatchee at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center for a mysterious tour. This will be a story-driven, live, interactive, dark, and spooky walk through the Museum, including some areas normally off-limits to the public. Get your tickets at the Museum Gift Shop, $10 per person through October 24th or $12 at...

Admission is free all day at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on the first Friday of every month, and hours are extended to 8pm with light refreshments offered after 5:00.

  Len Sherrard – Nature’s Needles Join pine needle basket maker Len Sherrard for a two-day workshop to learn his craft. Sherrard’s contemporary baskets include found objects like stones and antlers as well as gourds. His vibrant work also incorporates beads and dyed threads along with pine needles and other natural materials in the traditional...

Respected Native American historian E. Richard Hart talks about the current status of Wenatchi Fishing Rights on the Wenatchee River. His newest book "American Indian History On Trial: Historical Expertise in Tribal Litigation" includes information on the history of the Wenatchi fishing reservation and the Wenatchi trial for fishing rights. His talk will also include...

David Hockney, an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer is known as an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s. Join us for a free art class on Saturday, November 10 to learn how to create a photo collage like his work in the 1980s, compiling a ‘complete’ picture from...

Emily Washines, Yakama tribal member and scholar, talks about the intrinsic link between culture and food and the heartbreaking consequences to a community when those links to the past are broken. Washines uses the reintroduction of the Wapato plant as an example of the connection of indigenous foods to the health and culture retention of...

On November 14th, from 6:30 pm to 9:00pm, Come on down to the Wenatchee Valley Museum’s MakerSpace to learn how to make your Christmas Cards Pop!  Learn the basics of card circuitry and create three different Styles of Christmas cards that use LEDs and circuits.  With this knowledge, you will be able to make as...

Respected ornithologist and author Dr. Bruce Beehler will lead a talk and give a slide show featuring his field work. Beehler is a research assistant of the Bird Division of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. He co-led a survey on biological diversity in 2005 to the Foja Mountains in Papua where a...