Join us this spring for Family Saturdays! Explore how history connects us all during this hour-long story time program designed for children ages 4 to 10 and their friends and families. This month’s book: Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer comes just in time for summer break! This book is full of exploration, excitement, and big > Continue Reading
Commemorate Juneteenth through an evening of programming curated by BLK WINS. BLK WINS strives to be a direct resource for people, specifically Black youth, to discover and identify who we truly are, where we come from, and how we got here. The session will include a presentation and conversation facilitated by the BLK WINS team > Continue Reading
Family Saturdays – Storytime Saturday, September 7, 10:30 to 11:30 AM Included with admission Discover how history connects us all during our Family Saturdays. This month’s story is Shapes and Colors, by John Canty, a book about searching for colors in the world around us. We’ll read the book together and search for colors in > Continue Reading
Learn about Chinese-style ink rubbings from Professor Vernon Ng, who will offer a lecture, demonstration, and audience Q&A about this scholarly practice. Ink rubbings date back to the 7th Century AD, during the Tang Dynasty, and have since developed into an important technology to preserve historical markers and inscriptions. Learn more about Professor Ng’s efforts > Continue Reading
Henry R. Fenbert Challenging History Lecture – Hanford History Project Saturday, September 28, 5:30 PM– 7:00 PM FREE with required registration. The third annual Henry R. Fenbert Challenging History Lecture will be presented by historian Robert Franklin, an assistant professor of History at Washington State University Tri-Cities and serves as the assistant director of the > Continue Reading
Family Saturdays – 2025 Towner Award Nominees Saturday, October 5 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM Included with admission Please note that this Family Saturdays offering has a different format than normal. The event will run from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, with members of the Washington Library Association Towner Award Committee reading several books throughout > Continue Reading
Say Listen: A Night with the Black | Indigenous 100s Collective Thursday, October 17, 2024 6:00 PM University of Washington Tacoma at the Museum (formerly Scholarly Selections) FREE The Black | Indigenous 100s Collective is a group of artists, academics, activists, and creators who use collective writing as a means to grapple with the sometimes-frustrating > Continue Reading
Reclaiming Narratives: Real and Untold Stories of Tacoma Thursday, October 17 6:00 to 7:30 PM FREE – Registration Required Join facilitator Kellie Richardson for this series of free workshops that will allow our community to explore lost, hidden, and untold stories and experiences in an individual, familial, group, and societal context. Each 90-minute workshop > Continue Reading
Autumn Exhibition Reception Sunday, October 20, 2024 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM FREE with registration. Celebrate Washington State History Museum’s new exhibitions What Is Native Art? Eugene Landry and the Creative Spirit, The Mountain Was Out: Rainier Remembered, MAKERS ON THE TIDE: The Willits Brothers and Their Handcrafted Canoes, and Collections Selections: A Parachute from > Continue Reading
Family Saturdays – November Saturday, November 2, 2024 10:30 to 11:30 AM Included with admission Join us this fall for Family Saturdays! Explore how history connects us all during this hour-long story time program designed for children ages 4 to 10 and their friends and families. Discover how history connects us all during our Family > Continue Reading
