Yakima Valley Museum celebrates seventy fifth anniversary

Yakima, Wash. — The Yakima Valley Museum hosted its seventy fifth anniversary celebration on Saturday and welcomed many new faces and provided many enjoyable actions and video games for Yakima Valley youngsters.

“This is free admission today, so we really wanted to open it up to all the community members that are out there,” says govt director of the museum, Liz Hobson.

The museum arrange a brand new exhibit forward of the celebration to showcase lots of the museum’s first artifacts from 1951.

Hobson says that she ordered 800 cupcakes in preparation for a big crowd, however the crowd turned out to be a lot bigger than anticipated as over 600 individuals got here by means of with nonetheless 3-4 hours left to go.

“We just know how much the community in this area really loves this museum and so we really hoped that they would show up today and come celebrate with us and we’re really pleased and really thankful for all the community support,” Hobson stated.

Hobson says that the museum plans to be extra community-oriented than earlier than transferring ahead.

“I think if we did all of this in the last 75 years, I think there’s a lot more to do and I think there’s new faces in our community that have come out today and we’re hoping that they’ll tell us what we could do more for the community and what kinds of exhibits and what kinds of programs that we could do for them,” Hobson stated.

Hobson says that the Yakima Valley Museum has develop into greater than a spot to study, but in addition a spot to spend high quality time with household.