Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arts and Heritage Alliance president Cheryl Selby gives a pre-opening tour of the organization’s new museum which is slated to ...

The current Hands On Children’s Museum building. The museum is gearing up for its fourth expansion since it opened its doors in 1996. It includes doubling the museum’s indoor footprint and adding to ...

Looking Back’s theme for 2026 is Downtown by the Decades. Each week will feature a view of downtown Olympia over the years. Photographs are selected and captioned by Deborah Ross on behalf of the ...

MY TWO KIDS immediately gravitate to different exhibits as we take our first steps into Olympia’s Hands On Children’s Museum. Ellison, age 6, beelines to the Emergency Gallery, where exhibits include ...

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story included the wrong day of the week for tours. The Bigelow House Museum, closed since March 2020, will once again welcome visitors beginning Sunday, June 4.

A downtown storefront that used to house Bittersweet Chocolates until it closed at the end of 2024 will now be home to the city’s first-ever museum dedicated to Olympia’s arts, culture and history.