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Super Summer Adventures: Where the Wild Things Are

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

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...

Super Summer Adventures: Around The World

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

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...

Preschool story time: Nothing sticks like a shadow

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.

The Era of Mega Fires

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...

Geology Tour

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

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

$50 – $55

Native Heritage Bus Tour

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

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...

$50 – $55

A different kind of story time comes to the Museum

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...

Free

Docent lecture

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

Leno’s World

Author Jack Nisbet will be presenting a lecture and slide show about his book “Ancient Places.” Nisbet, who has made a career of unearthing interesting and important, but relatively unknown historical figures, has uncovered a true gem of a character in Prestini.

Beacon of Friendship: The Arts and Culture of our Sister City

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

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...

Geology Tour

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

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.

$40 – $45

A Different Kind of Story Time

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

Guest story teller Kevin McKee will read “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub.”

Fire Ecology Hike

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...

Fruit Label Swap Meet

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

Fruit label collectors will meet and swap at the Wenatchee Valley Museum. This event will be followed by a social hour with light refreshments, heirloom apple tasting, and a no-host wine bar runs from 4 to 5 p.m. followed by an apple industry lecture and slide show by Dr. Don Elfving.  

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

As part of the Environmental Film & Lecture Series, Kip Anderson explores the most destructive industry facing the planet today: Animal Agriculture. As Anderson   approaches leaders in the environmental movement, he increasingly uncovers what appears to be an intentional refusal to discuss the  issue of animal agriculture, while industry whistleblowers warn him of the risks...

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