As part of Wenatchee First Fridays, the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center always offers free admission all day, and a special reception with refreshments from 5 to 8 p.m. On Friday, Dec. 4, the museum will celebrate the opening of two new exhibits. The North Central Washington Juried Art Show, in the Main Gallery on the…

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…

Last Sunday marked our epic Drive & Dine, Wings & Wine Historic Landmarks Tour that took place today. Take a look at the YouTube video for a little taste of what we experienced on the roads and in the skies of North Central Washington. Special thanks to the Wenatchee Valley Antique Auto Club, the Spirit of…

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 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…

Every summer, more than 1,000 schoolchildren from all over the Wenatchee Valley come to the Museum to take part in our fun, educational Super Summer Adventures sessions. This summer marks our 18th year of bringing these exciting hands-on, tactile learning experiences to kids – and the program is going stronger than ever. With 11 4-day sessions this…

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…

Kids can explore the web of life from 9 a.m. to noon, March 31-April 3 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center. Visiting experts and museum staff lead this exciting class for kids in grades 3-5 featuring walking field trips, art lessons, and science experiments.  “We want kids to really understand ecosystems including the…

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…