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Burke Museum
Burke Museum is a museum in Seattle, WA, part of the Seattle guide. Cost: under $25.
4303 Memorial Way NE · Seattle, WA
Why you should go…
The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is the University of Washington's natural history museum and the official state museum of Washington, holding more than 16 million artifacts and specimens. Its building by Tom Kundig opened in 2019 with large windows into research areas, so you can see parts of the collection that were never shown before. Collections span anthropology, biology and geology. The Off the Rez Cafe serves fry bread.
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- #seattle museum
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