Drop by the Museum between 10:30 am and 3:30 pm on Saturday, October 30 to create a photo frame to place on your own altar or on a community altar. During the program, you will have the opportunity to learn a little of the history and traditions behind the Día de los Muertos Altar and receive instructions...

Join us on Saturday, October 30 for a Sugar Skull Making Workshop. Calaveritas de azucar, or Sugar Skulls, are often left on Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) altars for children who have passed. The skulls are often decorated with bright colors as a whimsical reminder of the cyclicality of life as opposed to a morbid...

Join us online Thursday, November 4 for a family friendly presentation and film “Why Bears?” with Dr. Chris Servheen. Dr. Servheen is one of the leading grizzly experts in the United States and one of the leading experts on bear conservation in the world. This presentation is about worldwide efforts to conserve bears and is focused on black bear and grizzly...

Join us on Friday, November 5 to celebrate the NCW Juried Art Show & Sale. The Museum will be open from 10 AM - 8 PM on the First Friday of November. We will have a special reception at 6:30 to recognize all the artists and award prizes to the winners. Admission is free on...

Join us on Wednesday, November 10 at 7 PM for an evening with Randy Lewis and Bill Layman to mark the release of their new book "Sunset and Moonrise on the Great Chief- The Ruling Spirit of the Columbia." Come hear the authors talk about the book which is their third book collaboration. In this...

The museum will be closed in observance of Veterans Day. We will reopen on Friday, November 12 at 10 AM.

Join us on Saturday, November 13 for a MakerSpace program on Automaton. Have you ever wondered what makes a Jack-in-the-Box jump out of its box? Or how a player piano can play such beautiful music? Come explore automata at the Museum and see how people have built self-moving machines for hundreds of years!   In...

Join us for a concert featuring the GladSong Choir. Formed in June 2021, GladSong is a collection of singers from North Central Washington. Their mission is to encourage through singing, to inspire listeners with positive messages, and to benefit communities by helping raise money for charitable cause. Selections you will hear include: Dry Bones, I...

The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center is located on the traditional homelands of the p’squosa (wenatchi). We acknowledge the traditional lands, and offer respect and gratitude to the p’squosa, and to the diverse Indigenous peoples that reside in North Central Washington today.  In recognition of the Thanksgiving Holiday the museum is closed on Thursday, November 25. We will...

Join us along with our sponsor Cascade Unitarian Universalist Fellowship for our Enviornmental Film & Speaker Series for a conversation about the film "Gather" on Thursday, December 2 at 7 PM. "Gather" follows the stories of Natives on the front lines of a growing movement to reconnect with spiritual and cultural identities that were devastated...

Join us on Friday, December 3 for the opening of our new exhibit "Connecting Communities: Link Transit Celebrates 30 Years of Service!" Admission is free on First Friday and the Musuem is open from 10 AM – 8 PM. We will have a special reception and ribbon cutting ceremony from 6 PM to 8 PM.

Join us on Saturday, December 11 at 10:30 AM for a Holiday House MakerSpace workshop. We are putting a spin on gingerbread houses this year while exploring electric circuitry and how we can use them to light things up or make things move. In this MakerSpace program, you will learn the basics of circuitry, including...

Join us on Saturday, December 18 from 12 to 2 PM for our annual Ugly Sweater Cookie Decorating & SingAlong. Wear your ugly sweater and decorate ugly sweater and other holiday sugar cookies while singing along to Christmas carols!  Prizes will be given for the ugliest sweater.  Cost is $2 per adult, kids are free...

The museum will close at 1 PM on Friday, December 24 and remain closed all day on Saturday, December 25. We will reopen at 10 AM on Tuesday, December 28. We wish all our members, donors, supporters, and friends a safe and happy holidays.

The museum will close at 1 PM on Friday, December 24 and remain closed all day on Saturday, December 25. We will reopen at 10 AM on Tuesday, December 28. We wish all our members, donors, supporters, and friends a safe and happy holidays.