Snoqualmie Valley Museum

Dear Friends, Exciting things are happening at the Museum! I’m thrilled to share that I am stepping into a full-time role as Executive Director in June after 19 years of being here part-time. This means more time dedicated to growing our programs, improving our exhibits, and ensuring our museum continues to educate and inspire visitors

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Guest Post by David Dreyer My father, Bill Dreyer, apprenticed as a boiler maker with the Union Pacific.  He worked as a welder and heavy equipment repair for the contractor, Guthrie and Co., which was building the Cascade tunnel under Stevens Pass for the Great Northern.  With the termination of that project my folks moved

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We would like to welcome Kaitlyn as the Museum’s new Visitor Services Assistant. She began working at the museum as a collections volunteer, and is excited about her new role. She enjoys welcoming visitors into the museum, and providing them with information about Snoqualmie Valley and its history. Kaitlyn has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the

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Join us for our Annual meeting on Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 1pm! This year it will be held in the Northwest Railway Museum’s Train Shed Exhibit Hall at 9320 Stone Quarry Rd in Snoqualmie. In addition to board elections, this year’s meeting will feature a series of talks on Trains, Planes and Boats in

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adapted from a 1992 article by David Battey The Snoqualmie Tree Farm is 90,000 acres, which is nearly twice the size of Seattle and stretches from Snoqualmie Falls nearly 25 miles north into Snohomish County and nearly as far east from Duvall and Carnation. Weyerhaeuser owned and operated the tree farm, improved the gravel roads,

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Every generation has extraordinary citizens, who dedicate their time to doing their very best to preserve, protect and better their communities. The Snoqualmie Valley has just lost one of these essential people. Gardiner Vinnedge spent his life teaching and preserving history, but far beyond that, he immersed himself and his many talents, in building a

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For many decades, our museum made do with little to no collections budget, but are trying to change that and improve that care by bring our collection care practices up to museum best practice standards. To do this, it means rehousing much of our collection. We would like to make sure both that our collection

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