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Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, WA

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Center for Wooden Boats

Seattle museum preserving Pacific Northwest maritime history, with wooden boats on display and hands-on sailing and boatbuilding programs.

1010 Valley Street, Seattle, WA 98109 · Seattle, WA

About Center for Wooden Boats

The Center for Wooden Boats is a nonprofit museum in Seattle that preserves and documents maritime history of the Pacific Northwest. Its South Lake Union campus sits inside Lake Union Park and includes the Wagner Education Center plus floating structures on the docks. Visitors can view boats and exhibits, and the center also offers rentals, sailing lessons, charters, and boatbuilding classes. Its current exhibits include a seasonal art show of marine work by West Coast and Hawaii artists.

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  • #Lake Union
  • #sailing

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