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The museum was founded in 1930 by Dr Warner M. Karshner and his wife in honor of their son, Paul Hibbert Karshner, who died of polio. Paul was only 17 years of age, just beginning his senior year at Puyallup High School. [2] It initially consisted of Karshner's private collection of 10,000 items including Native American artifacts.
Experience Music Project. This list of museums in Washington state encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
July 15, 1987 (Eckenstam-Johnson Rd. Anderson Island: Built in 1904, this is the oldest one-room schoolhouse in Pierce County. [6]Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's first natural history museum There are natural history museums in all 50 of the United States and the District of Columbia . The oldest such museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , was founded in 1812.
Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Medical History Museum, Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office, Middleburgh, New York; Mütter Museum, Philadelphia; National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Maryland; Touma Museum of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources estimates that the Puyallup Valley could experience $6–12 billion in damage from a major lahar. [20] To combat lahar danger, Pierce County maintains the Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System, implemented in 1998 by the USGS.
Native American museums in Washington (state) (1 C, 6 P) Pages in category "Natural history museums in Washington (state)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
A medical museum is an institution that stores and exhibits objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest that have a link to medicine or health. Displays often include models, instruments, books and manuscripts, as well as medical images and the technologies used to capture them (such as X-ray machines ). [ 1 ]