Want a great way to bring the museum into your classroom? Check out one of our History Boxes! Filled with artifacts, images, classroom posters, maps, and curriculum materials, these boxes allow your students to experience history firsthand. We offer five History Boxes, each available for rent — Coast Salish, Frontier Towns, Journey of Lewis and Clark, Makah Culture, and Ring of Fire: Volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest.
Rental Fee: $25 for one week; $10 extra for each additional week.
Because these boxes contain artifacts, someone from your organization must come to the Museum to pick up the box and return it.
Reserve your history box today.
From British Columbia to the mouth of the Columbia, many of Washington’s tribes share the same language. Learn about the culture and lifeways of native peoples like the Twana, Nisqually, and Puyallup from artworks, weavings, and raw materials.
Frontier Towns gives students a glimpse of what living on the Washington frontier was like. From trails to rails, your class will explore the Oregon Trail and pioneer life through maps, documents, cookbooks, artifacts and more!
Follow the footsteps of the Corps of Discovery as they travel west to the Pacific Ocean. Trade goods and explorers’ journals are among some of the items to be uncovered in the box about this historic journey.
Go beyond whaling headlines with your class and study the importance of fishing to Washington tribes as well as the traditions and stories of the Makah people. A wolf mask, rattle, and basket are among the objects used to share tribal culture in this history box.
Explore the historic interaction between the people of Washington and their ever-changing volcanic landscape. We collaborated with Mount Rainier National Park and the United States Geological Survey to integrate history, science and language arts in this study of Washington’s five volcanoes.