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...

Take a journey around the world in four days! Your head will be spinning after experiencing the sights, tastes and smells in this international experience class. We will journey on the Orient Express, ride a camel across the desert, sail Kontiki across the Pacific and fly a balloon in France plus much, much more! Super...

They say "Nothing sticks like a shadow." Help your preschooler find out why at our next museum/library storytime. Join us Wednesday, August 24th at 11:30 a.m. as one of the librarians reads and leads the children in an activity all based on shadows. It's just the latest in our STEAM series of stories for preschoolers.

Sponsored by The Wildfire Project, an affiliate of the Wenatchee Valley Museum The Era of Megafires is a 60-minute, multi-media, traveling presentation hosted by Dr. Paul Hessburg and North 40 productions.  Hessburg draws on his 27 years of conducting fire and landscape ecology research for the Pacific Northwest Research Station and the University of Washington...

We live in a geological wonderland! Come explore with our experts. Guided bus tours take you to all the best sights. Each tour is unique. Register for all seven to get an overview of the area

Explore culturally significant locations from the Peshastin Pinnacles to the Wenatchee Heights with Native American guide Randy Lewis during a day-long bus tour Saturday, Sept. 24. The bus will depart from the Wenatchee Valley Museum at 9 a.m. and return about 3 p.m. with a stop for lunch on your own at Pybus Market. Tickets...

Guest story teller Paul Atwood takes children on a whimsical journey “Into the Woods” at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24 in the first of a series of fun and fanciful Saturday readings held at the museum through the school year. The free event is appropriate for children of all ages and is open to the...

Lecture includes hands on materials from the fur trade. Call Museum Education Director Selina Danko at 888-6243 to register.

The Sister City relationship between Wenatchee/East Wenatchee and Misawa, Japan began in 1981. The historic 1931 trans-Pacific flight of the Miss Veedol airplane from Misawa to East Wenatchee, piloted by Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, was the common bond between the two cities.  We will be filling the gallery with the gifts and materials brought...

We live in a geological wonderland! Come explore with our experts. Guided bus tours take you to all the best sights. Each tour is unique. Register for all seven to get an overview of the area.

The museum is partnering with the Chelan-Douglas Land Trust to offer a free Fire Ecology Forest Hike with research landscape ecologist Dr. Paul Hessburg as guide . The hike, a follow up to the recent Era of Megafires multimedia presentation, will take place on the new bike trail at Squilchuck State Park. Hessburg’s walk-and-talk program...