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Wenatchee Valley Museum Platzhalter
Location: 47°36'07?N 122°20'02?W / 47.602°N 122.334°W       Elevation: 207,9 m Opening times: 10 am – 4 pm, except major holidays  10:00 am - 8:00 pm on the first Friday of every  month Distance to Wenatchee: 0 miles Ticket prices: Adults: $5.00 Seniors and students: $4.00 Children ages 6 -12: $2.00 Children 5 and under and museum members: Free  Free admission on first Friday of every month
Facts:The   Wenatchee   Valley   Museum   is a   museum   about   the   "Apple   State"   of     Washington          and          about          apple production.   But   it´s   also   about   how   the Native   Americans   lived   there   back   then. If   you   take   a   guided   tour,   they   show   you how   the   sorting   of   the   apples   worked and    how    the    box    builders    made    the apple    boxes.    They    tell    you    about    the apple   growing,   labels   and   yearly   apple queen   as   well.   In   a   different   part   of   the mueseum,    you    learn    things    about    the life     of     Native     Americans     back     then, about   digging   in   mines   during   the   gold rush       and       about       the       trains       in Washington.
When we arrived at the museum, they first told us to sit in front of a stage where they sometimes have events. A few days before, there had been a Mexican event called Dia de Muertos or in English Day of the Dead, so there was still the decoration of that day.  We walked over to the apple section of the museum and our guide showed us pictures of apple farmers and told us about how they grew the apples. She also showed us how the sorting and packing of the apples worked. She did it with an original machine of that time. That was really cool and it was a clever mechanism. And there were also box builders, but they didn`t have a good income. If you wanted to get enough for your family, you had to build like 3000 boxes a day. Then you were a good box builder. If you just produced 500 – 1000 boxes a day, you didn`t get as much money as a good builder did. After that, we went to a room which displays the different apple labels and our guide told us something about the quality of apples. That was really interesting because they had three colors for different qualities. If your label was blue, your apples were super premium quality, if you had a red label, your apples were just premium quality, and if your label was yellow, your apples were only average quality. Then we went to a kind of hall of fame, with every single Apple Queen from the beginning of the apple production up to now. Our last stop was the section about the Native Americans who lived there in prehistoric times. For me (Sebastian) it was the most boring part of the whole museum because I´m not really interested in Native Americans. But anyway, our guide talked about how they built their houses and the most important food sources or, in general, the most important sources of things you need to survive: the mammoth. But then during the gold rush all the white people came to Washington to dig mines there and the train was built. Then we finally had some free time and left this museum after a quick stop at the souvenir shop. Personal Conclusion: We visited the apple and Native American exhibits of the museum. We were there for about 2 hours. I liked the apple machines and the labels, because I love nostalgic signs. (Sebastian) I didn`t really like the Native American exhibit, because it was very boring. (Sebastian) This museum is more for people who like to look at things and not for people who like it better to do things themselves. But anyway it was worth spending the dollars.