Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center
The Green Guide
The Michelin Guide's review
Located downtown in Wenatchee's historic Post Office buildings (1917, 1937), this excellent regional history museum focuses on farm and town life of the early 20C and includes an outstanding depiction of the apple industry past and present. Exhibits begin inside the marble-lined lobby of the building with a series of re-created settings c.1910 that include the interior of a typical home and various Main Street businesses such as a general store, bank and printing shop. Here, too, are displayed a gleaming Oldsmobile Palace Touring Car and a massive pipe organ rescued from Wenatchee's Liberty Theatre. Upstairs, an exhibit on the Great Northern Railway includes an elaborate, coin-operated model train, that winds through a spectacular and meticulously detailed re-creation of the three mountainous railroad routes over Stevens Pass northwest of Wenatchee. On the first floor of the museum annex, the Apple Industry Exhibit displays a fascinating array of 1920s farm equipment, including a fully operational packing line. Roughly 45ft long, this contraption of wood, canvas, whirling rope and gears polishes, sorts, and flings apples into their proper bins.
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