Events

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.  

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...

This workshop is offered in conjunction with the museum’s Beacon of Friendship exhibit which focuses on the sister city relationship between Wenatchee and Misawa Japan and the world’s first trans-Pacific flight. Bailey, an experienced calligraphy artist, has led workshops for college level and elementary age students. All materials are provided.