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MOHAI is dedicated to enriching lives by preserving, sharing and teaching the diverse history of Seattle, the Puget Sound region and the nation.

MOHAI's Old Favorites, plus 4,000 more historic images are searchable online!
PHOTO SEARCH
Thanks to the generous support of PEMCO, thousands of MOHAI’s historical photographs have been preserved and made available to people around the world. To learn more about the PEMCO Webster& Stevens Collection, click on Photo Search.

Preserving the Past. Informing the Future.

2nd Annual End of Prohibition Celebration
Wednesday, June 3, 6:30 p.m. – 9 p.m.
Support MOHAI and enjoy an evening featuring many of Washington State’s outstanding wineries. Tickets - $45 at www.brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.
Questions? Contact Sarah Gilliam at 206-324-1126, ext. 56 or sarah.gilliam@seattlehistory.org

Discovering A-Y-P: A Community Research Project
MOHAI continues it's series of free workshops on how to conduct research on an aspect of Seattle’s first World’s Fair - the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Click here for more information.

A-Y-P for Teachers
The first project in a new education partnership between Heritage 4Culture and HistoryLink.org is a curriculum for elementary and middle school teachers, Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition: Centennial 1909-2009. The curriculum connects children with the history and centennial celebration of the A-Y-P Exposition, the region's first World's Fair, which promoted the Northwest's growing prosperity as a portal to the Pacific. MOHAI’s curriculum specialist, Meghan Arnette was a member of the team that created the curriculum. To access, click here.

Now Showing at MOHAI:

The Art of Warner Bros. Cartoons
Through May 17
All the beloved Warner Brothers characters will be here…Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Sylvester, Tweety Bird, and more. This overview of the legendary Hollywood animation studio brings together drawings, paintings, ‘cels,’ film, and related objects used in making the classic cartoons from the 1930s through 1960.

Photographing the Fair
The A-Y-P-E Photos of Frank H. Nowell and Others

100 years ago, Seattle made its mark by hosting a World’s Fair. See the array of images by the fair’s official photographer along with work in a less formal vein.

Essential Seattle:
A city revealed, the future imagined

MOHAI's core exhibit examines more than 150 years of Seattle history with compelling images, artifacts, films, and oral histories

Opening May 30, 2009
The Arts and Crafts Movement in the Pacific Northwest

A major new exhibition brings to light exceptional work from the Arts and Crafts Movement in the Northwest during the early twentieth century. The exhibition showcases significant buildings and interiors, furniture, glass, metalwork, ceramics, textiles, fine arts, graphics and book arts, and photography with over one hundred objects drawn from public and private collections.
For more information: click here.

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MOHAI is located in McCurdy Park at 2700 24th Ave. E, Seattle, WA 98112. For information call 206 -324-1126