Our annual enrichment classes for kids entering grades 1 – 7, Super Summer Adventures offers interesting experiences in arts and sciences at Wenatchee Valley Museum and off-site locations. Classes take place Monday – Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and 12:30-3 p.m. weekly starting in June 13th and going through August 25th. Take a look at...

In the steampunk studio, instructors Castilla Cava and Julia Dominguez will lead a workshop in creating original steampunk works of art that will serve as backdrops in the performance lab. Super Summer Adventures has a morning session and an afternoon session. Take a look at our complete catalog. Sign up for morning classes here and...

We will look closely at how and why animals move a certain from the swaying stick bugs to stalking lions. In the fossil dig, we will examine bones and teeth and use our detective skills to determine diet, habitat and develop theories about cause of death. Super Summer Adventures has a morning session and an...

Discover 3-D printing, different types of 3-D printers and how 3-D printing is changing our future. With the help of our team of experts, we will follow the same process an industrial designer goes through to create a product: sketch your ideas on paper, build a model and then print your design on a 3-D...

Take part in an American Folk Art tradition.  In 1914, Mary McAboy actually patented her line of Skookum dolls. Join us in the Makerspace for a hands on workshop to create your own apple head and doll.  This two-part workshop will include materials, instruction and plenty of inspiration!  Children welcome, but they must be accompanied...

Students in this camp will build a variety of contraptions that model how objects with mass like the sun can warp space time by creating gravity wells. Using science, math and art students will dig into the concept of string theory: the first rule of physics that tries to explain everything. Super Summer Adventures has...

Join adventurous instructor Sara Rolfs and take on the drone challenge! Students enrolled in this class will learn how to operate drones safely and work in teams to respond to real-world engineering problems related to drone operation. Super Summer Adventures has a morning session and an afternoon session. Take a look at our complete catalog....

Join us in this camp as we learn about river and ocean mammals and their specific adaptions. We will explore through movement, art, and science to create biome models, build a wave machine and an ocean in a jar. Put together a boat out of natural materials and celebrate its completion with a special launch...

In our invention lab, students will try their hands at making elephant toothpaste, flubber, reuseable bubbles, spaghetti slime, glow in the dark slime and oobleck. In our movement lab, we will present an end-of-class polymer pageant. Super Summer Adventures has a morning session and an afternoon session. Take a look at our complete catalog. Sign...

Join us for First Friday. Admission is free and we are open from 10-8. Come check out our latest exhibit, "Everything Skookum."

Take part in an American Folk Art tradition.  In 1914, Mary McAboy actually patented her line of Skookum dolls.  Join us in the Makerspace for a hands on workshop to create your own apple head and doll.  This two-part workshop will include materials, instruction and plenty of inspiration!  Children welcome, but they must be accompanied...

Let your dreams take flight by taking advantage of the wind! Students will learn how to make a man-made wing, otherwise known as an airfoil while gaining an understanding of how lift is created and Bernoulli's principle. Super Summer Adventures has a morning session and an afternoon session. Take a look at our complete catalog....

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, August 9 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum. They are again honored to have as their speaker Dr. Vic Baker, Professor of Planetary and Geo-Sciences, U. of Arizona-Tucson. He will discuss current thinking on Ice Age mega-flooding, as it presents...

"What floats in a moat?" Come find out at our next preschool story time on Wednesday, August 10th. Preschool story time, co-sponsored by the Wenatchee Public Library, begins at 11:30 a.m. and includes both a story and related craft. This partnership brings STEAM-based learning to the preschool crowd at no charge! Stories begin at 11:30...

Celebrate all things great, small and imaginary by learning animal moves, engineering special adaptions, and identifying animal tracks. Connect with nature by taking short hikes to our beautiful urban parks. Study tree bark to see evidence of the tiny communities living inside. Create a leaf, insect, animal, and plant guidebook to help identify things in...