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Our People, Our Place

The history of Wenatchee and East Wenatchee comes alive in this new permanent exhibit at the far end of the museum’s second floor. Photographs, text panels, costumed manikins and artifacts…

Coyote’s Corner

Coyote’s Corner is a hands-on children’s activity area with self-guided art projects and interactive learning. Phase one of our remodel project has been completed which includes an expanded space, new…

Great Northern Railway Diorama

From the earliest days of settlement, Wenatchee’s future depended on transportation in and out of the valley. The Great Northern Railway arrived in 1892, connecting the Wenatchee Valley to the…

The Saga of Wenatchee

This WPA (Works Progress Administration) mural created in 1939 by Peggy Strong is original to the Museum building when it was first built as a Post Office. It depicts the…

Native People of the Columbia Plateau

“Trade, Tradition and Change” explores how American Indian groups of the Columbia Plateau interacted with each other and the outside world, and how that interaction affected their traditions. Petroglyphs from…

Queen’s Court

Celebrating the history of Wenatchee Apple Blossom Festivals from 1920 to the present, this exhibit displays formal portraits of Apple Blossom Royalty. See how hair and clothing styles have changed…

Home Address: Anywhere in the Air

This exhibit illustrates the “golden age of flight” with aviation pioneer, and North Central Washington native, Clyde Pangborn. Photographs and artifacts celebrate Pangborn’s life and career, including his record-setting adventure…

Ice Age Mystery

This exhibit explores the 11,000-year-old Clovis culture, with special attention to a Clovis site discovered in East Wenatchee in 1987. Five of the large points from that excavation are on…

Liberty Theater Pipe Organ

This beautiful, fully operational 1919 Wurlitzer pipe organ from a local movie theater was restored and installed in the Museum’s performance center in 1989. Curtains behind the organ open to…

Washington’s Apple Industry

How did Wenatchee become the “Apple Capital of the World?” Our full-scale apple industry exhibit tells the story. It is located downstairs, below the “Our People, Our Place” exhibit, and includes a…