First Friday
2022-02-04 16:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | WA
Join us on Friday, February 4 to celebrate the closing of the NCW Juried Art Show & Sale. The Museum will be open with free admission during extended hours from 4 to 8 PM on the First Friday of each month.
Free admissions will be offered all day on the Saturday following First Friday for Family Saturday.

Family Saturday
2022-02-05 10:00 - 16:00 | WA
Join us on Saturday, February 5 for Family Saturday. Free admission will be offered at the museum all day on the Saturday following Frist Friday for Family Saturday. The museum is open from 10 AM to 4 PM. In February you will have the opportunity to see the annual Beauty of Bronze exhibit a program put on by Art on the Avenues to teach fifth-grade students from Wenatchee public schools about sculpture. This exhibit, located in the museum lobby, is a showcase of their work.

Matters of the Heart - Rescheduled
2022-02-05 10:30 - 12:00 | WA
Matters of the Heart has been rescheduled to Saturday, May 14 at 10:30 AM. There is still time to reserve your spot in the class. Cost is $30 per person. Registration is required and limited.
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Movement Mondays
2022-02-07 10:30 - 11:15 | WA
Join us on Monday, February 7 at 10:30 AM for Movement Mondays. Did you know music and dance can help with the development of math skills? Addition, subtraction, sizes, shapes and patterns are all important in dance and choreography. We hope to see you monthly on Movement Mondays for a fun way to reinforce math, colors, and shapes though music, dance, and movement! Cost of registration is $10 per child and caregivers are free. Pre-registration is required, please register to reserve your spot. This program is recommended for children pre-K through 2nd Grade.
REGISTER HERE
Adult participation is optional but supervision is required.

MakerSpace: Light-up Valentine's Day Cards
2022-02-12 10:30 - 15:00 | WA
Join us on Saturday, February 12 for a Drop-in MakerSpace Workshop on Light-up Valentine’s Day Cards. Send a light up card to someone you love this Valentine’s Day! In this MakerSpace program, you will learn to create a simple circuit paper card. We will be working with LED lights and copper tape. Each registered participant will make two light up cards.
Classes will be offered at the following times:
10:30-11:30
11:30-12:30
1:00-2:00
Cost is $5/person.
Preregistration is not required, but recommended as there are a limited number of spots which will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
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All children must be chaperoned by an adult. Adult participation is not required.

Actors' Workshop
2022-02-19 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-02-26 17:00 - 19:00 | WA
Are you interested in improving your acting skills while learning more about the history of the Wenatchee Area? Join the Museum for this intensive acting workshop, taught by local actor and Museum employee Matthew Pippin, where you will learn more about the art of acting, and tips and tricks of the trade. Held for two hours on four different days, this acting workshop will allow participants to learn about character research, script writing, public speaking, and more! Participants will choose a person from the Wenatchee Area’s past to research and portray, with the option of participating in the Museum’s live People of Our Past performance in March.
Cost is $50 for all four sessions. Each session is two hours and will be held on Saturday nights February 19 & 26 and March 5 &12 from 5 to 7 PM.
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Matthew’s Bio:
Matthew began his foray into live theatre at a young age in the Wenatchee Valley before attending and graduating from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (NYC campus, 2002). He has been worked in over 50 productions in the valley since returning from NYC in 2010, participating in Music Theatre of Wenatchee (both acting and directing), Mission Creek Players, The Levelers, Leavenworth Summer Theatre, The Radar Dames, & Hot August Nights productions at the Numerica Performing Arts Center of Wenatchee. Matthew is also a crew member of the PAC.

MakerSpace: Light-Up Mardi Gras Mask
2022-02-26 10:30 - 11:30 | WA
Join us Saturday, February 26 at 10:30 AM for a MakerSpace Workshop to get ready for Mardi Gras by making your own light up mask! In this MakerSpace program, you will learn how circuits work while creating a party mask that lights-up. We will be working with lilypad LED lights and conductive thread to create this simple sewing circuitry. You can decorate your mask with feathers, sequins and jewels. Each registered participant will create one light up party mask.
Prior hand sewing knowledge is helpful, but not necessary! We will be using sharp needles and creating a sewing circuit is detailed oriented. The minimum age recommended is 10; each child needs to be accompanied by an adult. Cost is $10 for museum members and $15 for non-members. Preregistation is required.
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Environmental Film & Speaker Series: Expedition Reclamation
2022-03-03 19:00 - 21:00 | WA
Join us along with our sponsor Chelan-Douglas Land Trust on Thursday, March 3 at 7 PM for the online premier of the film, “Expedition Reclamation” presented by The Brave Space Project, as part of our Environmental Film and Speaker Series. This short documentary seeks to redefine “outdoorsy” and reclaim belonging in the outdoors for Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color by highlighting their joyful, resilient, and transformative relationships to outdoor recreation. Join us virtually to hear from co-directors, Erin Joy Nash, Chelsea Murphy and Sanjana Sekhar, as they and their team present the film and have a panel discussion with characters and crew who contributed their stories in the film.
Please register to attend this event virtually. Donations go toward the Land Back Project.
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This film is a part of the Wenatchee Valley Museum’s Environmental Film & Speaker Series. Sponsorship support from foundations, community sponsorships, and individual giving allows us to offer these programs to the community. This series helps connect our community to the world around us, provide a platform for stimulating educational opportunities, raise awareness of issues impacting the environment upon which we all depend, and identify actions our community can take to improve and sustain our world and our Valley.
Please consider supporting the Wenatchee Valley Museum by joining us as a member and donor. Your support makes possible the programs, exhibits, and preservation of our local history that is an essential part of our community. Learn more at: https://www.wenatcheevalleymuseum.org/donate

First Friday: Regional High School Art Show
2022-03-04 16:00 - 20:00 | WA
Join us on Friday, March 4 to celebrate the opening of the 43rd Annual Regional High School Art Show. The Museum will be open with free admission during extended hours from 4 to 8 PM on the First Friday of each month.
Free admissions will be offered all day on the Saturday following First Friday for Family Saturday.

Family Saturday
2022-03-05 10:00 - 16:00 | WA
Join us on Saturday, March 5 for Family Saturday. Free admission will be offered at the museum all day on the Saturday following Frist Friday for Family Saturday. The museum is open from 10 AM to 4 PM. In March you will have the opportunity to see the annual 43rd Regional High School Art Show exhibit in cooperation with the North Central Educational Service District and the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction each year. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase our students’ creativity and talent District and Statewide. Student winners from the North Central District travel on to show and compete with students from across the state at the capitol in Olympia.

Actor's Workshop
2022-03-05 17:00 - 19:00, 2022-03-12 17:00 - 19:00 | WA

Movement Mondays
2022-03-07 10:30 - 11:15 | WA
Join us on Monday, March 7 at 10:30 AM for Movement Mondays. Did you know music and dance can help with the development of math skills? Addition, subtraction, sizes, shapes and patterns are all important in dance and choreography. We hope to see you monthly on Movement Mondays for a fun way to reinforce math, colors, and shapes though music, dance, and movement! Cost of registration is $10 per child and caregivers are free. Pre-registration is required, please register to reserve your spot. This program is recommended for children pre-K through 2nd Grade.
REGISTER HERE
Adult participation is optional but supervision is required.

Monsterlove Masks: Paper Mâché Workshop
2022-03-14 10:00 - 13:00 | WA
SOLD OUT
Join us in March for Monsterlove Masks: Paper Mâché Workshop with artist Sara Hasslinger. Sara guides you through the creation of your own paper mâché head mask that represents your spirit or personality you’d like to explore. Reserve your spot to design and create your own mask over three Mondays – March 14, 21 and 28 from 10 AM to 1 PM. Use your mask in your work, to display in your home or join with other Monsterlove ‘maskateers’ to create videos or walk in a parade together.
Cost is $75 for members and $95 for nonmembers. Registration closes on Friday, March 11. Space is limited.

People of Our Past: Remembering the Appleyard Explosion of 1974
2022-03-18 18:00 - 19:30 | WA
Local history comes alive at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on March 18,19 & 20. Join us on Friday, March 18 at 6 PM for our annual People of Our Past living history program where local actors portray real people whose lives were impacted by the Apple Yard Explosion in Wenatchee on August 6, 1974.
Tickets are $25 per person.
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Drop-in MakerSpace: Junk Bots
2022-03-19 10:30 - 15:30 | WA
Join us on Saturday, March 19 for a Drop-in MakerSpace program on Junk Bots between 10:30 AM and 3:30 PM. Create a vibrating and moving junkbot using everyday “junk” or items in your recycle bin. These tiny robots are powered by a vibrating motor, like the type found in cell phones. Design your own using scrap materials and spare parts. No previous experience with robots is required! Cost is $5/person. This program fee includes one vibrating motor kit and materials for one junkbot, as well as circuitry instruction. Pre-registration is recomended but not required – drop by the Museum during the program times to participate.
Program Times:
10:30-11:30
11:30-12:30
1:30-2:30
2:30-3:30
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People of Our Past: Remembering the Appleyard Explosion of 1974
2022-03-19 18:00 - 19:30 | WA
THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT – SEATS STILL AVAILABLE FRIDAY & SUNDAY
Local history comes alive at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on March 18,19 & 20. Join us on Saturday, March 19 at 6 PM for our annual People of Our Past living history program where local actors portray real people whose lives were impacted by the Apple Yard Explosion in Wenatchee on August 6, 1974.
Tickets are $25 per person.
REGISTER HERE

People of Our Past: Remembering the Appleyard Explosion of 1974
2022-03-20 18:00 - 19:30 | WA
Local history comes alive at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center on March 18,19 & 20. Join us on Sunday, March 20 at 6 PM for our annual People of Our Past living history program where local actors portray real people whose lives were impacted by the Apple Yard Explosion in Wenatchee on August 6, 1974.
Tickets are $25 per person.
REGISTER HERE

MakerSpace: Basket Weaving Workshop
2022-03-26 10:00 - 16:00 | WA
Join us on Saturday, March 26 from 10 AM to 4 PM in the MakerSpace for a Basket Weaving Workshop. Come learn traditional basket weaving of the p’squosa and other Native American tribes. Instruction on how to make a Twined Sally Bag will be given by Julie Edwards, Bernadine Phillips and Brandon Finley, who have been practicing traditional basket weaving for years! In this MakerSpace class, you will learn how to make a round twined basket.
Cost: $60 members and $75 non-members
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An Evening with AZ Wells
2022-03-26 18:30 - 19:30 | Wells House, 625 Nelson Ave., Wenatchee, WA, 98801, United States
Spend an evening with AZ Wells and his wife, Emogene on March 26 at the Wells House, located on the Wenatchee Valley College campus.
This event will feature 1920’s AZ Wells and Emogene talking about their life in Wenatchee and the beautiful Wells House, their home from 1919 until 1945. The Wells’ were early pioneers of this region and became prominent Wenatchee orchardists. Co-owner of Wells and Wade Hardware and Fruit Shippers, AZ made many contributions to Wenatchee and the surrounding areas.
Dave and Dianna Williams will portray this historic couple beginning at 6:30 pm. A glass of wine is included with the registration fee of $15 for museum members and $18 for non-members. Space is limited and vaccination cards will be required as well as face masks when not eating or drinking.
Tours of the house will be available after the presentation.
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First Friday at the Museum
2022-04-01 16:00 - 20:00 | WA
Join us on Friday, April 1 for First Friday. The Museum will be open with free admission during extended hours from 4 to 8 PM on the First Friday of each month.
Free admissions will be offered all day on the Saturday following First Friday for Family Saturday.

Family Saturday
2022-04-02 10:00 - 16:00 | WA
Join us on Saturday, April 2 for Family Saturday. Free admission will be offered at the museum all day on the Saturday following Frist Friday for Family Saturday. The museum is open from 10 AM to 4 PM.

Science on Saturdays: Vermicomposting
2022-04-02 10:30 - 12:00 | WA
Join us in the MakerSpace during the month of April for Science on Saturdays. Saturday, April 2 at 10:30 AM is our composting class! Join us together with Betsy and Jana from Sustainable Wenatchee for this class on vermicomposting. Vermicomposting is a great way to learn the basics of indoor composting, using Red Wiggler worms to create nutrient-rich worm castings and compost. In this class, we will make an indoor compost bin and learn what to put in our compost, and how to keep your worms happy and healthy.
The recommended age for this class is 8 and older, and each child will need to be accompanied by an adult as we will be using a drill to create holes in our compost bin.
Cost is $5 for members and $8 for nonmembers. Registration is required and will close at noon on April 1st.
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Spring Break Camp: Marvelous Mammals
2022-04-04 09:00 - 2022-04-08 15:30 | WA
Do you think mammals are marvelous? Have you ever wanted to learn how to film, edit, and create your own YouTube videos? In this camp, 5th and 6th graders will learn about our local mammals and work in small teams to create media content. Join us for a fun-filled week of mammal explorations, media creation, and more!
Cost is $150 members and $175 nonmembers. Registration closes on Thursday, March 31.
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Classes are held Monday-Friday from 9:00 AM- 3:30 PM for students in 5th & 6th grades. Students will have lunch on-site; lunch is not provided.

Environmental Film & Speaker Series: Owl by Paul Bannick
2022-04-07 19:00 - 21:00 | WA
Join us along with our sponsor North Central Washington Audubon Society on Thursday, April 7 PM for a virtual program with Paul Bannick featuring video, sound, stories from the field and several dozen new images from his award-winning and best-selling book: Owl: A Year in the Lives of North American Owls. Paul’s program will take us through the seasons of owl lives: courtship, mating, and nesting in spring; fledging and feeding of young in summer; dispersal and gaining independence in fall; and, finally, winter’s migrations and competitions for food.
Please register to attend this event virtually.
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This film is a part of the Wenatchee Valley Museum’s Environmental Film & Speaker Series. Sponsorship support from foundations, community sponsorships, and individual giving allows us to offer these programs to the community. This series helps connect our community to the world around us, provide a platform for stimulating educational opportunities, raise awareness of issues impacting the environment upon which we all depend, and identify actions our community can take to improve and sustain our world and our Valley.
Please consider supporting the Wenatchee Valley Museum by joining us as a member and donor. Your support makes possible the programs, exhibits, and preservation of our local history that is an essential part of our community. Learn more at: https://www.wenatcheevalleymuseum.org/donate

Science on Saturdays: Owl Pellet Dissection
2022-04-09 10:30 - 12:30 | WA
Join us in the MakerSpace during the month of April for Science on Saturdays. Saturday, April 9 is Owl Pellet Dissection. Owls swallow their prey whole, but cannot fully digest some items such as bones and teeth. These indigestible items are then compacted into a pellet that the owl spits out. We can learn a lot about owls and their diets by dissecting these pellets. In this Science on Saturday program, you’ll be able to dissect an owl pellet and investigate for yourself what they ate. You’ll begin to identify the indigestible pieces left behind in the pellet and learn to categorize them. These pellets have been sterilized so that we can have safe fun learning the science behind owl pellets.
This class is recommended for kids 10 and up. Each child needs to have an adult present. Preregistration is not required, but encouraged as there are a limited number of spots which will be filled first-come, first-served while supplies last.
Cost is $5 for members and $8 for nonmembers
This class will be offered at 10:30 AM and 11:30 AM
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Movement Mondays
2022-04-11 10:30 - 11:15 | WA
Join us on Monday, April 11 at 10:30 AM for Movement Mondays. Did you know music and dance can help with the development of math skills? Addition, subtraction, sizes, shapes and patterns are all important in dance and choreography. We hope to see you monthly on Movement Mondays for a fun way to reinforce math, colors, and shapes though music, dance, and movement! Cost of registration is $10 per child and caregivers are free. Pre-registration is required, please register to reserve your spot. This program is recommended for children pre-K through 2nd Grade.
REGISTER HERE
Adult participation is optional but supervision is required.

Author Talk & Book Signing
2022-04-14 18:00 - 20:00 | WA
Join us for an author talk and book sigining with Dr. Helen Knowles on Thursday, April 14, at 6 PM on her book Making Minimum Wage: Elsie Parrish versus the West Coast Hotel Company. Come meet the author and learn more about this local story that changed the course of history.
The US Supreme Court’s 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State’s minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. It also marked a major shift in the Court’s response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda. In Making Minimum Wage, Helen J. Knowles tells the human story behind this historic case.
There is no charge for the program but preregistration is encouraged to reserve your seat.
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Dr. Helen J. Knowles is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Oswego and author of The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty.

Science on Saturdays: Seed Paper
2022-04-16 10:30 - 12:30 | WA
Join us in the MakerSpace during the month of April for Science on Saturdays. Saturday, April 16 is Seed Paper. Have you ever wondered how to make your own paper? What about paper you can later plant to grow into flowers? Join us to learn how to make your own seed paper using recycled items and nature! You can make this paper decorative by using spices for color, lavender for the smell, dried leaves, and vines for added texture. You can make the paper into cards and later plant it in soil. Watch the science behind these seeds as they germinate and grow!
Join us for a beginner’s experience on homemade paper. The museum will provide all the materials and instructions to create a few different types of paper.  Each child needs to have an adult present. Preregistration is not required, but encouraged as there are a limited number of spots which will be filled first-come, first-served while supplies last.
Cost is $5 for members and $8 for nonmembers
This class will be offered at 10:30 AM and 11:30 AM
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