Free Workshops/Lunch/Parking! 2 days-Nov. 20-21 featuring Savage Family & traditional storytellers. Workshop goal: to create something new-a fusion of Native Storytelling & Hip Hop with native voices...
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'Jimi Hendrix: An Evolution of Sound' will focus on the visitor experience and how Hendrix indelibly affected popular music with his unique talents and innovative sound.
This premiere of a nationally-touring exhibit will take visitors on a "road trip" through the American West to learn about the region's intriguing fossils and the stories they tell about the past...
The University of Washington Herbarium (also known as WTU) is an international resource for research into the diversity, distribution and ecology of Pacific Northwest vascular plants, non-vascular...
Have you ever wondered how 3D movies are made? Or how some artists create incredibly realistic 3D images with only the use of paint and canvas? Pacific Science Center's 'Adventures in 3Dimensions'...
Each gallery will highlight the stories of Vietnamese Americans, Indian Americans and Filipino Americans, and will feature the Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial.
Featuring key selections from the Frye Founding Collection, Bringing Munich Home demonstrates the significant role the city of Munich and its artists played in the lives of Seattle collectors Charles...
Explore the life and science of northwest Washington's large and ecologically diverse estuary, Puget Sound. See real tides and currents in action at the 100-square-foot scale model of the sound. See...
Spin a two-ton granite ball with your bare hands or walk in the giant water wheel in Water Works. Nearby, ride the High Rail Bicycle 15 feet above the ground -- on a rail one inch wide!
Computers, robots, virtual reality and more! Challenge an industrial robot to a game of tic-tac-toe. Defend your team's goal in VR Keeper, the full- body virtual reality soccer experience.
This permanent exhibit gives visitors insight into how our bodies function. There are computer games in the Nutrition Cafe, Calorie Bicycles to explore how much energy one produces, and many other...
This exhibition features works from the Museum's permanent collection that reflect innovative inflections in traditional East Asian genres. See 19th-century Japanese literati paintings and vibrant...
How does an electric motor work? What does a gyroscope do? How fast can you throw a baseball? Who wins the bubble race? Find the answers to these and other questions in the Science Playground.
Chinese and Japanese arts are full of auspicious symbols expressing the desire for longevity, wealth, harmony in marriage, high position and numerous offspring. In this installation, discover the...
The Burke's mineralogical collection is one of the finest on the Pacific Coast. The collection contains specimens of every major chemical group, and is particularly rich in silicates, carbonates...
In 'Pacific Voices,' you'll learn about seventeen different Pacific Rim cultures and how they adapt and remain vibrant in a changing modern world. Here you can learn about the revival of a dying...
The year round, indoor, play space, Zoomazium is designed for younger children to explore nature in a variety of themed settings, from a mountaintop to an African waterhole. Zoomazium also contains...
'Life and Times of Washington State' is a hands-on adventure that begins 545 million years ago. Richly exotic, yet strangely familiar, this exhibit is a passport through the evolution of the state's...
The Gunther Garden features plants important to Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest. These plants were--and in many cases still are--used for food and medicine, and as the raw materials for...
Archaeology is the scientific study of how people lived in the past through the objects they left behind. The Burke Museum Archaeology Collections include more than one million objects from around the...
The collection at the Burke Museum includes 100,000 spiders, as well as other terrestrial invertebrates such as 37,000 butterflies and moths, and some 136,000 additional specimens including bees...
The Genetic Resource Collection at the Burke Museum is essentially a "library" of biodiversity--and one of the most important in the world for birds. The Burke's GRC and the few others like it are the...
The herpetological collection at the Burke Museum contains 4,200 specimens of amphibians and reptiles, primarily from the Pacific Northwest. It is particularly strong in amphibians and garter snakes...
Drawn from the Frye's Permanent Collection, Open Roads and Bedside Tables focuses on American painting from the early twentieth century, when artists turned away from European academic traditions to...