Enjoy the splendor of Old City Hall, festooned in its holiday finest, while listening to your favorite holiday songs sung by the students of the Brooke Bates Music Studio. Admission to Old...

Start the year off small with the Whatcom Museum! After a busy holiday season, join us at the Museum for a day of miniature crafts....

MUSEO - Art & Archive 704 W. Holly St, Bellingham Saturday, March 15th 12pm-3pm The public is invited to celebrate the opening of a new museum in Old Town Bellingham. A sister museum to The Helen Loggie Museum of Art, MUSEO is an assemblage of several collections - tied together with Bellingham as its anchor. Paintings by Ira Yeager, pottery by Louis Mideke, historic maps, posters and an archive of over 100 years of Bellingham newspapers...

Heritage Flight Museum is back in the skies on April 26! Help us “knock off the rust” and start up the 2025 Fly Day series with our historic...

Elea Plotkin will be playing piano in Whatcom Museum’s Old City Hall Rotunda Room on Dec. 13th and 20th, from 1 -3 pm. for their ‘Deck the Halls Festival.’ Stop by and enjoy viewing their decorated trees while listening to her enchanting traditional Carols, classical favorites, and light jazz. Legacy pianist, singer-songwriter, composer, recording artist,...

https://www.whatcommuseum.org/event/bits-and-bobs-assemblage-workshop/ Join Renee Sherrer of Social Fabric for an assemblage sculpture workshop inspired by Io Palmer’s installation, Meander (on view through Jan 25). Palmer’s mixed media work evokes the complex nature of...

https://www.whatcommuseum.org/event/striking-scarves-natural-dye-and-shibori-workshop/ Brighten up the winter months with natural dyes. Learn how to use plants to create vibrant, wearable art in this introduction to dye making. Participants will explore common natural dyes like madder and weld, learn how to achieve long-lasting color, and experiment with making simple dyes using kitchen scraps,...

https://www.whatcommuseum.org/event/how-they-got-here-provenance-tales-of-three-french-paintings/ Have you ever wondered how an artwork ends up in a museum? Provenance, or the history of an object’s ownership, can offer us a fascinating insight into the social environment...

https://www.whatcommuseum.org/event/introduction-to-recording-oral-histories/ There’s something incredibly special about recording the voices and stories of our loved ones. In this class, public radio reporter Kyle Norris...

https://www.whatcommuseum.org/event/introduction-to-bug-pinning-sunset-moths/ Learn how to spread and dry your own sunset moth specimen to keep. Using a rehydrated specimen ready to spread, each student will be guided through the process of flexing, posing, pinning, and drying their own moth specimen. This incredible insect, native...

https://www.whatcommuseum.org/event/introduction-to-bug-pinning-stunning-scorpions/ Learn how to spread and dry your own forest scorpion specimen to keep. Using a rehydrated specimen ready to spread, each student will be guided through the process of flexing, posing, pinning, and drying their own scorpion specimen. This incredible arachnid is native to Thailand and uses its pincers more than its tail to inflict damage to its prey. You will leave with your finished pinned specimen ready to dry at...

Travel in time today as we visit one of Seattle’s National Historic Landmarks and then fast-forward to an outdoor contemporary sculpture collection. Our day begins with a docent-led tour at the steam plant highlighting the important role it played beginning in 1906. We’ll break for a no-host lunch before venturing up to the modern-day Olympic Sculpture Park. Please note: Both locations include steps and uneven surfaces and require walking and standing for a long period...