Museum Day is an annual celebration of boundless curiosity hosted by Smithsonian magazine. Participating museums provide FREE entry to anyone presenting a Museum Day ticket! The Washington State History Museum is pleased to participate again this year. Tickets will be available starting August 15.
Scholarly Selections is a series of informal talks organized by the University of Washington Tacoma and held at the Washington State History Museum on Free Third Thursdays during the academic year. Hear from UWT professors, graduate students, and researchers about the interesting topics they’re exploring. At our November Scholarly Selections, hear from Dr. Margaret Lundberg > Continue Reading
Theater performances at the Washington State History Museum will bring to life Dr. King’s legacy. At 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM, Tacoma Arts Live presents 11 Days in the Life of Dr. King featuring spoken word, dance, music, shadow play, and historic images. At 3:00 PM, Living Voices presents The Right to Dream: Civil Rights > Continue Reading
Seattle had a vibrant underground hip hop movement in the 1980s and 1990s, but not until the mid-2000s would it fully capture the attention of mainstream culture. Join UWT student Alex Zerbe to examine the twenty-year gap between Seattle’s two nationally recognized hip hop stars, Sir Mix-A-Lot (Anthony Ray) and Macklemore (Ben Haggerty). Learn how > Continue Reading
Lace up your skates and get ready for a roll down memory lane with this new exhibition! Relive the glory of roller disco, couples’ skate, the snack bar, skate fashion, and your favorite skating music. Learn how present-day roller derby and new innovations are enlivening skate culture. The exhibition also explores how skating culture has > Continue Reading
While loss and change potentially initiate painful grieving, artists and writers across time have used writing to remember and contextualize life and experience to bring forward the goodness that preceded a loss and/or that which is to come. Western culture has historically encouraged a forgetting or rewriting of the past, but as ancestral and community-focused > Continue Reading