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| | Bellevue Art Museum - Art | | The museum is the pacific Northwest's center for the exploration of art, craft and design through exhibitions, educational programs and partnerships, emphasizing the work of regional artists. |
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| | Burke Museum - Natural History | | The Burke Museum is dedicated to creating a better understanding of the world and our place in it. The museum is responsible for Washington State collections of natural history and cultural heritage, and for sharing the knowledge that makes them meaningful. The Burke welcomes a broad and diverse audience and provides a community gathering place that nurtures life-long learning and encourages respect, responsibility, and reflection. |
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| | Center for Wooden Boats - Local | | The museum offers an opportunity to experience the dimensions of an earlier time, to put your hands on the oars of a graceful pulling boat or the tiller of a traditional wooden catboat. With help from master craftsmen, you can learn to steam bend an oak frame, cast an oarlock, sew a canvas ditty bag, splice a line or caulk a seam. The Center for Wooden Boats is a hands on maritime museum. Its purpose is to preserve our rich, vital and varied small craft heritage by preserving both the artifacts and the time-tested maritime skills. The museum's aim is to provide an educational adventure, through participation, in our small craft heritage. |
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| | Frye Art Museum - Art | | Through the museum's exhibitions, collections, and programs, the Frye Art Museum engages audiences, challenges perceptions, and encourages dialogue about representational art in all its complexities, past and present. |
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| | Henry Art Gallery - Art | | The Gallery diverse audiences in the powerful experience of artistic invention and serves as a catalyst for the creation of new work that inspires and challenges. Exhibitions, collections, and public programs stimulate research and teaching at the University of Washington, provide a creative wellspring for artists, and reveal a record of modern artistic inquiry from the advent of photography in the mid-19th century to the multidisciplinary art and design of the 21st. |
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| | Museum of Flight - Local | | The museum is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, attracting more than 400,000 visitors annually. The Museum's collection includes more than 150 historically significant air- and spacecraft, as well as the Red Barn(r)-the original manufacturing facility of The Boeing Co. The Museum's aviation and space library and archives are the largest on the West Coast. More than 100,000 individuals are served annually by the Museum's on-site and outreach educational programs. The Museum of Flight is one of only 750 museums in the nation and nine in Washington state that are fully accredited by the American Association of Museums. |
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| | Museum of History and Industry - Local | | The museum opened on February 15, 1952, has grown to become the largest private heritage organization in the State of Washington, attracting more than 60,000 visitors annually from the Northwest and beyond. MOHAI collects preserves and presents the rich history of the Pacific Northwest. Its engaging exhibits and programs have created an appreciation for the Northwest's diverse cultural, social and economic history. |
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| | Nordic Heritage Museum - Local | | The museum is a place where history comes alive and contemporary artists and community activities are celebrated with vibrant exhibits and events. Dedicated to collecting, preserving and educating since its founding in 1980, the Nordic Heritage Museum is the only museum in the United States to honor the legacy of immigrants from the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. |
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| | Northwest Railway Museum - Local | | The museum is moving forward with construction of the Conservation and Restoration Center (CRC). This facility is the first phase of the new Railway History Center and will be used to perform collection care on historic railway transportation artifacts including steam and diesel locomotives, passenger cars, freight cars and track maintenance vehicles. Track construction is expected to begin in summer 2005 and foundation work will begin in August 2005. Ground breaking will be taking place on August 6th. |
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| | Northwest Seaport Museum - Local | | The museum preserves the maritime heritage of Puget Sound and the Northwest Coast. The museum has a variety of concerts such as Sea Chantey Sings, Matthew Moeller & Campbell Road and Sanger & Didele and Halibut Stew. The museum offers a range of educational programs and tours. Visitors can take a tour of the 165-foot historic schooner Wawona. They can experience hands-on activities and colorful work songs from the Age of Sail. Visitors can tour the 120-foot Arthur Foss tugboat. |
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| | Pacific Science Center - Science Centers | | The science center Pacific Science Center inspires a lifelong interest in science, mathematics and technology by engaging diverse communities through interactive and innovative exhibits and programs. Some of these exhibits are "Dinosaurs: A Journey through Time", "Tropical Butterfly House", and "Science Playground". Some programs offered are the Toy Test, 19th Annual Bubble Festival, and Stories & Such, Reptiles around the World, Tricks, Treats & Science Feats, and 32nd Annual Model Railroad Show. |
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| | Seattle Art Museum - Art | | The museum believes art enriches life. We've seen how art can inspire creativity, communication, and a cooperative spirit. That's why we're working actively to connect art to life: expanding the ways we welcome the community, deepening the museum's experience for visitors, and heading out into the community to help make the arts a part of everyday life for people of all backgrounds. |
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| | Vintage Telephone Equipment Museum - Local | | Today the museum's space is still located in the same working Qwest (now) equipment building. Hard working volunteers, most of them now retired, installed and now maintain the equipment in working order. |
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| | Wing Luke Asian Museum - Local | | The museum engages the Asian Pacific American communities and the public in exploring issues related to the culture, art and history of Asian Pacific Americans. Some of the permanent exhibits included in the museum are "One song, many voices, "The Densho project" and "Camp Harmony D-4-44". Some of the special exhibits are Asian and Pacific Islander Adoptees and Women and Violence. |
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