Harbor History Museum

Harbor History Museum
Established	2010
Location	4121 Harborview Drive Gig Harbor, Washington
Coordinates	47°20′15″N 122°35′35″W / 47.3375°N 122.5931°W / 47.3375; -122.5931
Type	History and maritime
Director	John Ross
Owner	Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Society
Website	harborhistorymuseum.org

The Harbor History Museum is a regional maritime and history museum in Gig Harbor, Washington. It hosts exhibits on regional culture and history, and Midway Schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse built in 1893 and moved to the museum's grounds in 2009.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] The museum won the Washington Museum Association annual Award of Project Excellence for an exhibit called Midway Pioneer School Experience.^[5]

The museum acquired its current 14,500-square-foot (1,350 m²)^[3] location on downtown Gig Harbor's Harborview Drive with a $1.5 million gift from a Gig Harbor family. The museum opened there in 2010.^[6]

In late 2014 the museum board announced it would host more local cultural events including monthly music concerts in 2015 and a new preschool.^[7]^[8]

Boat restoration

The museum is restoring a wooden fishing boat, the Shenandoah, that worked the San Juan Islands from 1925 until it was donated to the museum in 2000.^[2]^[9]

References

↑ Charlee Glock-Jackson (November 19, 2013), "Midway School in Gig Harbor celebrates 120 years", Kitsap Sun
1 2 Terry Richard (May 29, 2014), "Gig Harbor salty getaway across Puget Sound via Tacoma Narrows Bridge", The Daily Oregonian
1 2 Nonprofit directory: GIG HARBOR PENINSULA HISTORICAL SOCIETY- HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM, Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, retrieved 2015-06-11
↑ Kathryn True (October 13, 2010), "Gig Harbor boosts its maritime pedigree with new museum and more", The Seattle Times
↑ "Midway School at History Museum earns state honor", Kitsap Sun, May 1, 2013
↑ Karen Miller (May 20, 2015), "Longtime Peninsula Historical Society volunteer loved community, history", Kitsap Sun
↑ Jon Manley (December 30, 2014), "Harbor History Museum details plans for 2015", gateline.com
↑ Jon Manley (February 25, 2015), "Gig Harbor residents to open preschool in fall of 2015", gateline.com
↑ "Museum volunteer turns Shenandoah restoration wood scraps into bowls, bread boards", Kitsap Sun, April 7, 2015

External links

Official website

Museums in the Puget Sound region

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Aviation	Flying Heritage Collection Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour Heritage Flight Museum McChord Air Museum Museum of Flight Olympic Flight Museum Port Townsend Aero Museum

Children's	Hands On Children's Museum KidsQuest Children's Museum Seattle Children's Museum

Culture	Museum of Pop Culture Nordic Heritage Museum Northwest African American Museum Suquamish Museum Quinault Museum Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience

History	DuPont Museum Eastside Heritage Center Edmonds Historical Museum Harbor History Museum History House of Greater Seattle Issaquah Historical Museums Karshner Museum Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park Museum of History and Industry Renton History Museum Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum Seattle Underground Washington State History Museum

Maritime	Browns Point Light Center for Wooden Boats Coast Guard Museum Northwest Northwest Seaport Snagboat Heritage Center Working Waterfront Maritime Museum

Military	Coast Guard Museum Northwest Lewis Army Museum McChord Air Museum Naval Undersea Museum Puget Sound Navy Museum Washington National Guard Museum

Natural sciences	Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Museum and Arts Center, Sequim, Washington

Science and technology	America's Car Museum Bellingham Railway Museum Georgetown Steam Plant Living Computer Museum Museum of Communications Pacific Science Center SPARK Museum of Electrical Invention Vintage Motorcycle Museum

See also: List of museums in Washington and Museums and galleries of Seattle

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