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TGIF! Celebrate with a Wine & Dine Night with Butler Transportation. Every Friday night, our Wine Stuart, is at Russell's Restaurant with the Mercedes van ready to give you an extraordinary w
TGIF! Celebrate with a Wine & Dine Night with Butler Transportation. Every Friday night, our Wine Stuart, is at Russell's Restaurant with the Mercedes van ready to give you an extraordinary w
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 Na
Visitors can discover the true thespian within themselves at the Bijou Theatre, which features two sets, lighting sound effects and costumes for 'The Secret Garden' and 'Raven Steals th
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 o
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
Enjoy year-round sunshine in the Tropical Butterfly House! Temperatures are in the low '80s, humidity is 60 to 70 percent, and full-spectrum lighting keeps the plants and butterflies healthy. Wat
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
See yourself on TV as the Guest Meteorologist in the K5 First Alert Weather Center. Freeze your shadow on the Shadow Wall. Experiment with water at the stream table. And for the smallest scientist, th
Strap on your hiking boots to trek up the mountain and learn about Washington's forests. Climb past a waterfall and make your way through a cave full of bats and flowing lava. At the top, slide d
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,
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.
Originally established in 1990, Imagination Studio is a drop-in art studio where artists and visitors work together to create art. The projects, developed by the artists and museum staff relate to bot
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, horn
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.
Skipper the Good Ship See Worthy as you head for an adventure round the world. Visit a Tailor Shop in Ghana, travel around the Philippines on a tricycle or enjoy some sushi in Japan.
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.
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 hous
Window on Washington Waters is a 120,000-gallon showcase exhibit. The exhibit is modeled after Neah Bay's rock blades filled with salmon, colorful rockfish, vibrant sea anemones and other native
Ahoy, infants and toddlers. Join the museum for a trip "under the sea" in Discovery Bay, an area aimed especially for the young visitors. Pull kelp, slide over a ferry boat and investigate f