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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 throughout the exhibit spaces...
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 - and eat...
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 made...
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
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...
Second Saturday Kids Day: Kitsap Heritage Quilt
Join us at the Kitsap History Museum every second Saturday of the month for kids activities suited for grade school age. For May, help us build a Kitsap Heritage Quilt showcasing the many families that make up our community. Contribute to this group project by drawing...
April Newsletter
**KHM April Newsletter** Journey to Kitsap opens this month! Museum News Give Big for Kitsap Great Give! The Kitsap Community Foundation have been supporting Kitsap non-profits through the Great Give for 10 years! This event has brought in crucial dollars for the...
Exhibit Opening: Journey To Kitsap
Our new Special Exhibit "Journey to Kitsap" features a variety of engaging personal stories, artifacts, and photographs from immigrants and their descendants. Visitors can learn about the challenges and triumphs of immigration, as well as the ways in which immigrant...
Second Saturday Kids Day: Scavenger Hunt
All April we'll be hosting our April Fools Scavenger Hunt! For Second Saturday Kids Day search our exhibits for items that don't belong. What silly, oddball, historically inaccurate items will you discover amidst our collection? This activity is suitable for kids and...
History UnCorked: The Roxy
For this special program of History UnCorked we're traveling next door to The Roxy and back in time to 1941 when the theatre first opened. Local journalist and historian, Josh Farley, will paint the scene of downtown Bremerton and 4th St right before the war. Join us...