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A major exhibit examining more than 150
years of Seattle history with compelling images, artifacts, films, and
oral histories.
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McCurdy Gallery
A photographer’s lens has the power and privilege to capture everyday activity as well as extraordinary occasions. Work and play, portrait and vista, routine and unusual, each subject can become an engaging photograph.
MOHAI has mounted a striking new exhibit of black and white photographs gleaned from its collection of 2 million images. Each presents a remarkable moment in Washington State History. Stop in the gallery and take a look around – the view is terrific…!
Photo: MOHAI, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Collection
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Brinkley Gallery
Take a walk in downtown Seattle during the 1880s, the booming decade before statehood and the Great Fire of 1889. Feel the dry wooden sidewalks creak beneath your feet, and hear steamers pulling into Elliott Bay.
Lots of fun stuff for kids.
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Carkeek Gallery
While Chicago has Mrs. O'Leary's lantern-toppling cow, Seattle has John Back and a pot of glue. MOHAI stokes the fires of curiosity with the glue pot and other artifacts from the fire that leveled the city on June 6, 1889.
See the 1953 mural by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rudolph Zallinger. |
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Carkeek Gallery
When Seattleite Edmund Smith invented the "Iron Chink", which mechanized the processing of salmon, he set off a chain reaction still felt today. SALMON STAKES is a journey through 20th century fisheries, seen through the eyes of the average worker.
Lots of hands-on activities for all ages.
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Sophie Frye Bass Library Passage
The northwest outdoors played a part in inventing water skis, founding Eddie Bauer & REI, launching the careers of mountaineers Jim and Lou Whitaker, and inspiring thousands to take part in a diverse range of team and individual sports.
See vintage swimsuits, water skis, mountain climbing equipment, and more!
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Sophie Frye Bass Library Passage
Seattle's first 20th century celebrity was Bobo the Gorilla, who was raised in a private home and later moved to the Woodland Park Zoo. He appeared in LIFE Magazine, newsreels, and a Bill Cosby record.
Bobo came to MOHAI as taxidermy in 1968, and he's been an icon ever since.
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Boeing Johnson Gallery
Boeing's first plane, the famous B-1 flying boat from 1919, hangs above MOHAI's Hall of Icons in the Boeing Johnson Gallery. The B-1 inaugurated international mail service, with Eddie Hubbard piloting the craft between Seattle and Victoria, B.C., Canada.
The plane was built by the firm that would become aerospace powerhouse The Boeing Company.
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Boeing Johnson Gallery
The Slo-Mo invented summer in Seattle after setting the water speed record on Lake Washington and winning the coveted Gold Cup in Detroit in 1950. Her "flying" three-point hull design is still used in modern hydroplanes.
The Slo-Mo was painstakingly restored before returning to MOHAI in 2001.
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McCurdy Landing
MOHAI champion Horace W. "Mac" McCurdy was an inveterate collector of everything maritime, from models to artwork to navigation instruments to figureheads. The collection is a thrill for maritime enthusiasts.
This display features one of MOHAI's oldest artifacts, a Spanish cannon.
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Boeing Johnson Gallery
This miniature southern Colonial mansion, known by many as "the dollhouse," has been a hit with MOHAI visitors, particularly young children, since the 1950s. Come back and take another look now that you're taller and can see the second floor!
Look for miniature furnishings and a mouse-skin rug!
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MOHAI Store
MOHAI's growing neon collection includes the giant "R" that shone from atop the Rainier Brewery, the Natural Gas "Blue Flame," the Warshall's Sporting Goods sign, and a sign from The Doghouse restaurant.
Currently, only the "R" is on display.
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Knight Gallery Stairs
With support from Depression-era federal government programs, Seattle artist Kenneth Callahan painted a multi-panel mural originally installed at the Maritime Hospital on Beacon Hill.
Along with the mural panels are select ship models from MOHAI's collection.
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Knight Gallery
Created by artist Jean Cory Beall in 1958, the energy-themed mosaic "That Man May Use It Freely..." was cut into five pieces and reassembled in MOHAI's Knight Gallery in 1996.
The downtown building where the Beall mural originally stood was torn down.
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Clise Gallery
The settlers known as The Denny Party are depicted arriving at Alki on a rainy November 13, 1851 in this miniature display created by Lillian Smart for MOHAI in 1955.
Can you tell why some of the settlers are crying?
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MOHAI Grounds
Surrounding MOHAI in McCurdy Park is a Garden of Iconic Objects, including the 1890 Seattle fire bell, a deck gun from the USS COLORADO, a Japanese maple from the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, a paper pulp millstone, and functioning gas street lamps.
Can you find the architectural detail from the White Henry Stuart Building?
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