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...

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...