In order to introduce our board members and volunteers to the NCW community at large, and to encourage others to get involved with the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center, we are embarking on a few new blog series in 2016. The first is our “Meet our Board” blog series, and we thought what better…
Throwback Thursday: Welcome To Wenatchee
#ThrowbackThursday to a view of a lighted “Welcome to Wenatchee” sign arched across the foot of First Street. The Griggs Building with The Wenatchee Department Store sign is visible. This photos was taken sometime between 1903 and 1909, when the railroad depot was still at the foot of First Street. From the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center Historic Photograph…
Kids Learn in Forest Classroom
Meet Douglas, one of the Wenatchee Valley Museum’s “forest sprouts,” who greets kids every day at the forest classroom at Squilchuck State Park. Douglas and his 20+ cousins mark learning spots along the way, where students (we’ll have 2,500 of them in Oct-Nov!) are having the coolest field experience ever. Next to Douglas is Selina…
Come to the Museum, Pose with Coyote!
One of the things that makes the Wenatchee Valley community so special is our commitment to and appreciation of public art. The Wenatchee Art on the Avenues organization is the driving force that has brought more than 85 original pieces to the streets and sidewalks of Wenatchee. Some of the pieces are just visiting, and some…
The Museum is on YouTube!
The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center is making great strides on the digital media front! We’ve been actively posting new videos to our YouTube channel recently, thanks to our new summer intern Monti Artiga. Most of them are focused on our wonderful Super Summer Adventures program going on now, like this one. But we’ve…
New Museum Director Takes The Helm This Week
Sandy Cohen started his new job on Monday as director of the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center. The museum had been without a permanent director since December, when Brenda Abney resigned to take a museum job in Arizona. Cohen, a Baltimore native, recently served as director of the Albuquerque International Balloon Museum in New Mexico. He is a…
Support Your Community, Support River Of Baskets
Our fundraising goal for this campaign is $9,500 and is the final push toward the total budget needed to create this special exhibition and series of programs. We have only raised $950 so far, which is far short of our goal.
Dora Tibbets: Homesteader and Women’s Rights Pioneer
Cashmere was still Old Mission and Chelan County was yet to be named when Dora Tibbits and her husband Milton carved a living from their Dryden homestead in the early 1900s. With land on both sides of the Wenatchee River, their property existed in both Kittitas and Okanogan counties. “It surely is a nuisance,” Tibbits…
James J. Hill: Railroad Magnate and Wenatchee Visionary
“Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work,” was the mantra of railroad magnate James J. Hill. A hands-on detailed obsessed manager, Hill refused to believe the arid lands of Wenatchee could not be developed into bountiful orchards. Hill’s faith in the future prosperity of the valley was so strong that he worked with…
E.T. Pybus: The Steve Jobs of Wenatchee
Before he became Wenatchee’s “Man of Steel,” industry builder and pioneer E.T. Pybus established a thriving blacksmith shop in a booming farm community. The shop quickly morphed from village blacksmith to wagon and harrow repair, sheet metal fabrication and building parts for United States World War II military operations. “Pybus was the Steve Jobs of…