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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.
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.
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
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.
The Meeker Mansion Museum is a historic house in Puyallup, Washington, United States. It is the second of two homes in the city which were resided in by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker, the first one being a cabin on the homestead claim which Meeker as well as Hunter Thompson and Will Brines purchased from Jerry Stilly in 1862. This was a one ...
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 ]
Malm was generally self-taught without an academic degree. In the years 1838–1839, he was student and assistant of Sven Nilsson (1787–1883), professor of Natural History at Lund University . He worked from 1840 as an assistant of Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History , zoological department in Stockholm.