The Ernest Norling Murals: A Note 

The Ernest Norling Murals: A Note 

The Ernest Norling Murals: A Note  Written by Peter Harrington, Curator Emeritus, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library, who is writing a book on art and mural programs in US military bases, 1941-1945  The two familiar mural panels that hang in...
Second Saturday Kid’s Day: Board Games

Second Saturday Kid’s Day: Board Games

Second Saturday Kids Day: Board Games July 8th noon-4pm   For July’s Kids Day we’re throwing a family friendly board game party. We’re partnering with Ashley’s Pub to bring board games into the museum! There will be stations set up...
Eat Your Way Through Kitsap History 2023

Eat Your Way Through Kitsap History 2023

Since 2003, the Kitsap History Museum has been putting on our very popular, Eat Your Way Through Kitsap History series. We get the opportunity of sharing some of Kitsap’s rich history and you get the chance to learn a little more about the area you live in...
Second Saturday: Fossils

Second Saturday: Fossils

Join us at the Kitsap History Museum every second Saturday of the month for kids activities suited for grade school age. For June, we’ll have our Hands On History trunk on fossils out for kids to explore! Learn how we can gather history from bones, rocks and...
Perspectives: OUT in Kitsap

Perspectives: OUT in Kitsap

Join us in a conversation about perspectives in historical narratives. For this quarterly program in partnership with Kitsap Regional Library, Kitsap History Museum use an artifact to inspire dialogue between members of the community about what the artifact means to...
History Uncorked: Rumrunning in the Northwest

History Uncorked: Rumrunning in the Northwest

On Thanksgiving Day, 1925, Roy Olmstead was trapped by federal prohibition agents and their Tommy guns on a lonely Puget Sound dock. His reign as the Northwest’s most prolific bootlegger had ended. But big questions—political, cultural, and legal—remained. Why did...