ADDRESS
17th Ave NE and NE 45th St.
Seattle, WA 98195
HOURS
Open Year Round
10:00am - 5:00pm, daily
CONTACT
(206) 543-5590
Burke Museum
AMENITIES
Restrooms, Wheelchair Accessible
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, on the University of Washington campus, offers its members and visitors opportunities to learn about whales through exhibits, programs, and educational materials for classroom use. Specimens in the research collections include skeletons of both fossil and contemporary whales.
The state of Washington is home to a particularly rich variety of fossil cetaceans from the past 50 million years. The Burke Museum’s ethnology collection represents the importance of whales in the art and culture of Indigenous People of North America.