What ambiance!

Washington State Museum in the Forestry Bldg, ca 1910
Photo courtesy of UW Special Collections, for educational use only.

Incarnations of the Museum: 1927-1957

For thirty years the Museum operated out of the Washington State Building. As with Forestry & California, this building was also a remnant of the 1909 Expo. It was the library until 1926 and then remodeled for the Museum in 1927. After the Museum moved out, it was gradually torn down, some in 1961 and the rest in 1988.
Photo by Calvin F. Todd, n.d.; courtesy of UW Libraries Special Collections, order #CFT0165.

Third grade students inside the Museum, December 7, 1950.

Photo by E.F. Marten, 1950; courtesy of UW Libraries Special Collections, order #UWCO374.

Incarnations of the Museum: 1910-1923

The Forestry Building (above) and California Building (below) provided new space for the Museum, both were constructed for the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo in 1909. Forestry was built using natural Fir tree logs as columns 4' diameter and 37' tall. The building was compromised by Bark Beetles and torn down in 1930.

California did not last as long, torn down in 1915.

Top: Photo by John N. Cobb, 1922; courtesy of UW Libraries Special Collections, negative #Cobb 4626. Bottom: Photos by unknown photographer, 1909; courtesy of UW Libraries Special Collections, order #AYP322.