Each weekend during the run of the exhibit Coffee: The World in Your Cup, the Burke Museum and our partners offer coffee tastings with roasters from around the Puget Sound. Tastings are Saturdays and/or Sundays and are free with museum admission.

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The Burke Museum is one of several sites included in the Greenway Challenge, a summer-long event where participants take photographic proof of their visit to a list of Greenway sites for a chance to win prizes. This scavenger hunt-like event runs from June 20 - September 7 and is organized by the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust. Click here to learn how to incorporate your visit to the Burke Museum into the the Greenway Challenge!

The Burke's popular summer camps are back in 2009, with exciting camps for children in preschool through high school! For more information and to register, click here.

Come one, come all to the Burke Circus! Join the Burke Museum at Seattle Public Libraries this summer for this interactive game with familiar storybook characters, real museum specimens, puppets, and prizes. Ideal for kids age 10 and under. Find out when Burke Circus is coming to a library near you!

Natural history writer David B. Williams reads from his new book, Stories in Stone: Travels through Urban Geology, at the Burke Museum.

When Williams looks at the stone masonry, façades, and ornamentations of buildings, he sees a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics.  In Stories in Stone, he introduces us to a three-and-a-half-billion-year-old rock called Morton gneiss that is the color of swirled pink-and-black taffy; a 1935 gas station made of petrified wood; and a fort in St. Augustine, Florida, that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone (coquina) that has the consistency of a granola bar. Stories in Stone will inspire readers to realize that, even in the modern metropolis, evidence of our planet's natural wonders can be found all around us in building stones that are far less ordinary than we might think at first glance.

Admission to this event is free.

Only four Asian-Pacific groups participated in the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition: Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and Hawaiians. How and why their cultures were presented to fair goers has been a neglected subject. This symposium is intended to reveal stories of Asian-Pacific participants as a way of understanding the development of their communities and their images in their own eyes and those of European Americans, some supportive and others fiercely hostile.

Part two of a two day symposia sponsored by the Chinese in Northwest America Research Committee. Preregistration required. For details and registration visit http://www.cinarc.org/aype.html#anchor_280.

Photographer Ben Marra and his wife, Linda, spent twenty years traveling to powwows across North America documenting the powwow dancers and the brilliant colors, incredible craftsmanship, and personal significance of their regalia.  Heritage, family, tribe, and culture are woven into the dancing dress as inextricably as any thread.  In Faces from the Land each dancer recounts his or her own journey to the drum circle, and one thing becomes clear; a new generation of Native Americans is determined and honor-bound to keep the dancing tradition alive. The talk features a 7-minute visual presentation set to powwow music.

See tiny microscopic bugs, touch large live bugs, and get close up to bees and bug-eating plants! With hands-on buggy activities, the entire family is sure to enjoy this popular annual event!

Discover ancient Egypt with Burke archaeology experts and view the archaeology collections, including our Egyptian mummy and coffin!

Discover the diversity of mammals, ranging from shrews to whales. Talk to mammalogists, touch bones, pelts, horns, and antlers, and see amazing specimens including enormous whale skulls!

Jerry White Jr., of the Working Snake River Project, will present 70 historic photos of the lower Snake River prior to its inundation by four federal dams between 1961 and 1975. The photographs reveal islands, bars, and canyons now flooded by reservoirs. The presentation will include a discussion of the geography, culture, and landscape of the lower Snake River. Presented by the Working Snake River Project and Save Our Wild Salmon.