Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center

Volunteer Appreciation Lunch
2016-11-21 03:30 - 05:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States

A Different Kind of Story Time
2016-11-19 03:00 - 05:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
Guest story teller TJ Farrell will read “Skippyjon Jones”. This free program is great for kids of all ages.

Environmental Film & Lecture Series: To Make a Farm
2016-11-15 11:00 - 13:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
Named one of the ten most popular Canadian films at the Vancouver International Film Festival, To Make A Farm asks: what might the future of local food and farming look like? This beautifully photographed documentary explores the lives of five young people who have decided to become small-scale farmers. This is an exceptionally hopeful film that gives viewers a close-range view of humanity, along with a detailed portrayal of the nuts and bolts of agriculture. Local farmers will answer questions following the film.
This film and lecture will be sponsored by The Washington Sustainable Food & Farming Network.

Veteran's Day Holiday
2016-11-10 - 2016-11-11
We are closed today for the Veteran’s Day holiday.

A Different Kind of Story Time
2016-11-05 04:00 - 06:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
Guest story teller Matt Cadman will read “I Need My Monster.” This free program is great for kids of all ages.

Jake Lodato brings Clyde Pangborn to life
2016-11-04 12:00 - 13:30
Clyde Pangborn enthusiast Jake Lodato brings to life the aerial stunt pilot best-known for achieving the first nonstop trans-Pacific flight in a living history program. A $5 donation is requested.
It’s a role Lodato first played earlier this year as part of the museum’s “People of our Past” program. A retired Air Force Reserve jet pilot, Lodato moved to the Wenatchee Valley in the mid-1970s with his wife, Kathy. While working locally as a fruit broker, his interest in all things aviation led him to Pangborn’s story.
Lodato is a charter member and chief pilot of the Spirit of Wenatchee Project, a group of builders and flyers of the Miss Veedol, a replica Bellanca aircraft the group flies to air shows and fly-ins in an effort to raise the profile of Pangborn and Herndon’s remarkable achievement.

First Friday
2016-11-04 03:00 - 13:00
We hope you have been to see our newest exhibit, Beacon of Friendship: the Arts and Culture of our Sister City in the main gallery. Among the highlights are an interpretation of a Japanese tea house, a rock garden, kimonos, and huge selection of artwork. Notably, there are a series of prints telling the story of the 47 Ronin.

Did you have a seat in the “tea house” that Curator of Exhibits Kasey Koski created? Come back when you have some time to really take it in. Have a seat on the zabuton–the traditional floor cushion. Relax. Dabble with the water-based calligraphy brush. Fold paper to create your own origami creature. Or write a haiku. Instructions for all of those are right in the display.

The exhibit is in our main gallery and will be on display through February 11, 2017.

Dia de los Muertos Celebration
2016-11-01 11:00 - 13:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
Live music, dancing, crafts, face painting and festive food marks Day of the Dead celebrations from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum. The event is free and open to the public.

This event is being sponsored by Wenatchee Valley Lutheran Latino Ministry

A Different Kind of Story Time
2016-10-29 04:00 - 05:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
Kelly Atwood will be the featured guest story teller for our “Different Kind of Story Time” series.
She’ll read The Nightmare Before Christmas, by Tim Burton.
See more details here.

Wenatchee Mini Maker Faire
2016-10-29 02:00 - 09:00 | Wenatchee Convention Center, 121 N Wenatchee Ave , Wenatchee , WA, 98801, United States
Family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.

Old Chief: His Story
2016-10-25 12:00 - 14:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
Arnold Cleveland, a Wenatchi band descendant and member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, shares stories about growing up Native American on and off the reservation at 7 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center. Wenatchee World publisher Rufus Woods facilitates this important, first-person account of history. The free talk includes original music by Cleveland.

Calligraphy Workshop
2016-10-22 03:00 - 05:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
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.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
2016-10-18 12:00 - 14:00 | 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 to his freedom and even his life if he dares to persist. This shocking, yet humorous documentary reveals the devastating environmental impact of large-scale factory farming while delivering a path of hope for global sustainability for a growing population.
This film is being sponsored by Let’s Talk! Climate Conversations NCW.

Fruit Label Swap Meet
2016-10-15 03:00 - 11:00 | 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.

Fire Ecology Hike
2016-10-09 06:00 - 08:00
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 will focus on the fascinating and integral role of fire in our forests. A Discover Pass is required for parking at Squilchuck. Space is limited. Sign up at cdlandtrust.org or call 667-9708.

A Different Kind of Story Time
2016-10-08 04:00 - 10:00 | 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.”

Geology Tour
2016-10-08 02:00 - 07:00 | 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.

Beacon of Friendship: The Arts and Culture of our Sister City
2016-10-07 12:00 - 14:00 | 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 back throughout the years of delegation exchange, as well as a display featuring some of Japan’s iconic culture.

Leno’s World
2016-10-04 12:00 - 14:00
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.

Docent lecture
2016-10-03 03:00 - 05:00
Lecture includes hands on materials from the fur trade. Call Museum Education Director Selina Danko at 888-6243 to register.

A different kind of story time comes to the Museum
2016-09-24 04:00 - 06:00
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 public. A craft activity facilitated by students from the Wenatchee High School Drama Club is included.
The storytelling event is at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 127 S. Mission Street. Participants will have an opportunity to create a hand-tooled leather bookmark as a keepsake.
Kevin McKee will read “King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub” Oct. 8. Kelly Atwood is the featured story leader Oct. 29.
For more information, call the museum at 509-888-6240.

Native Heritage Bus Tour
2016-09-24 02:00 - 08:00 | 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 are $55/person or $50/member. Buy tickets here.

Geology Tour
2016-09-10 02:00 - 10:00 | 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

Preschool story time: Nothing sticks like a shadow
2016-08-24 04:30 - 05:30
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.

Super Summer Adventures: Around The World
2016-08-22 02:00 - 2016-08-25 08:00 | 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 Summer Adventures has a morning session and an afternoon session. Take a look at our complete catalog. Sign up for morning classes here and afternoon classes here.

Super Summer Adventures: Where the Wild Things Are
2016-08-15 02:00 - 2016-08-18 08:00 | 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 our city.
Super Summer Adventures has a morning session and an afternoon session. Take a look at our complete catalog. Sign up for morning classes here and afternoon classes here.

Preschool story time: What floats in a moat?
2016-08-10 04:30 - 05:30
“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 and run approximately 30 minutes. You can also enjoy our Artist of the Month, Pablo Picasso. Make your own self portrait in our Imagination Station. No charge for that gem either. Seriously. Come see us!

Mega-floods and the scientific method
2016-08-09 12:00 - 14:00
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 on Earth and elsewhere, and what issues need more work to understand the whole story. So this is also about how the scientific method, with its limitations and strengths, provides answers to problems through observing the physical world.
With five decades of Ice Age Floods research, especially in central and eastern Washington, Dr. Baker is one of the leading experts on this subject in our solar system, and a great story-teller.
The program is free & open to the public.
For an overview of the Ice Age Floods and more information on the Ice Age Floods Institute, please see our website: http://www.iafi.org; and http://www.hugefloods.com.

Super Summer Adventures: Windy City Science
2016-08-08 02:00 - 2016-08-11 08:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
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. Sign up for morning classes here and afternoon classes here.

Apple Doll Workshop: Part Two
2016-08-06 03:00 - 05:00 | Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center, 127 South Mission Street, Wenatchee, WA, United States
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 by an adult for both sessions. Registration and fees required.
