Name: Weird, Wonderful, and Worrisome Objects in Washington State's Museums
Start: 2025-10-18T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-18T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Northwest Maritime

Weird, Wonderful, and Worrisome Objects in Washington State's Museums
Saturday, October 18th, from 7PM to 8:30PM
at the Northwest Maritime Center
The Jefferson County Historical Society is thrilled to host this Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau presentation by Harriet Baskas: "Weird, Wonderful, and Worrisome Objects in Washington State's Museums."
This program is pay-as-you wish. Donations are appreciated in order to cover overhead for this event; however, all are welcome to attend for free.
Pre-registration recommended.
ABOUT THE TALK:
Most museums display no more than 10 percent of their holdings, often citing “not enough space” as the reason. But there are also a wide range of cultural, philosophical, political, environmental, historic, and even superstitious reasons why museums keep some objects from public view.
In this talk, author and journalist Harriet Baskas explores a wide range of hidden objects found in the back rooms of museums in our state and around the country. Examples include a Spokane institution that holds Bing Crosby’s toupées and a museum in Lynden that’s home to a 150-year-old pickle.
When possible, Baskas invites local museum curators to answer questions, participate in discussions, and unbox a few hidden treasures. For this event, the JCHS research team will be on hand to discuss some weird, wonderful, and/or worrisome objects from the JCHS collections.