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  • A person stands covered in a white sheet holding an apple.

    History Café: Uncovering Seattle’s “Lost” Cemetery

    History Café Events
    Microsoft Lakefront Pavilion MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Experience the challenges and mysteries of what happened to the 3,260 people buried at the Duwamish Cemetery (aka Seattle's Potter's Field) when it was erased in 1912 for the dredging and straightening of the Duwamish River. Learn about this untold history from South Seattle while engaging with the themes of industrial growth, marginalized perspectives and collective memory.

  • John Halliday playing a Native American drum

    History Café: How Native Values Can Teach Resilience

    History Café Events
    Microsoft Lakefront Pavilion MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Hear the personal story of John Halliday, a Muckleshoot Tribal member of Duwamish ancestry. Audiences will learn Washington State history from a Native American perspective, and how that history can teach resilience.

  • Mrs. Sumiko Furuta on ferry during forced removal

    Living Voices: Within the Silence

    Living Voices Events
    Joshua Green Foundation Theater MOHAI 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    In 1942 Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 imprisoned thousands of loyal American families. These innocent citizens struggled to maintain their families while incarcerated. Witness this silent chapter of our history and share in one Japanese American family's fight to sustain faith and love in the country they love. Living Voices combines live theatrical performances with archival film, turning history into a moving personal journey.

  • Mrs. Sumiko Furuta on ferry during forced removal

    Living Voices: Within the Silence

    Living Voices Events
    Joshua Green Foundation Theater MOHAI 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    In 1942 Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 imprisoned thousands of loyal American families. These innocent citizens struggled to maintain their families while incarcerated. Witness this silent chapter of our history and share in one Japanese American family's fight to sustain faith and love in the country they love. Living Voices combines live theatrical performances with archival film, turning history into a moving personal journey.

  • On the left, Rolland H. Denny at birthplace of Seattle monument on Alki Beach, Seattle, 1938. On the right, Bernie Whitebear reading proclamation ending protester's encampment at Fort Lawton, Seattle, April 3, 1970.

    History Lab Application Deadline

    Online

    Apply for History Lab, a summer intensive for high school students entering grades 10-12 in the 2025/26 school year interested in local history and storytelling.

  • General strike participants leaving shipyards, Seattle, February 1919

    History Café: A Waterfront Without Wobblies

    History Café Events
    Microsoft Lakefront Pavilion MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Hear from Conor Casey, head of the Labor Archives of Washington, about the complex labor history of Seattle's central waterfront and possible reasons for why this integration didn't occur during the heyday of labor radicalism.

  • Black women standing in front of two white tents with washing board to her left.

    Living Voices: Klondike

    Living Voices Events
    Joshua Green Foundation Theater MOHAI 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    The promise of riches and a new life during a time of turmoil drives one young woman to join a worldwide stampede in the last grand adventure of the 19th century.

  • Black women standing in front of two white tents with washing board to her left.

    Living Voices: Klondike

    Living Voices Events
    Joshua Green Foundation Theater MOHAI 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    The promise of riches and a new life during a time of turmoil drives one young woman to join a worldwide stampede in the last grand adventure of the 19th century.

  • SS Virginia V docked.

    Virginia V Cruise: Vanishing Seattle

    MOHAI MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join Vanishing Seattle founder Cynthia Brothers aboard the historic Virginia V steamship for an evening cruise around Lake Union.

  • SS Virginia V docked.

    Virginia V Cruise: Vanishing Seattle

    MOHAI MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join Vanishing Seattle founder Cynthia Brothers aboard the historic Virginia V steamship for an evening cruise around Lake Union.

  • A montage of photos from photographer, Curtis Wong showing daily Asian life.

    Transpacific Photography and the Obscura Project: Post World War II Life in Japan

    Microsoft Lakefront Pavilion MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join Curtis Wong (MOHAI Board Member), Devorah Romanek (MOHAI Chief of Exhibits and Interpretive Services), and Leonard Garfield (MOHAI Executive Director) for a discussion of Wayne Wong's collection and the lessons we can learn from it today.

  • A pond and surrounding green space at the Kubota Garden in Seattle, WA.

    History Café: Kubota Garden

    History Café Events
    Microsoft Lakefront Pavilion MOHAI - 860 Terry Ave N, Seattle, WA, United States

    Join representatives from the Kubota Garden Foundation and learn how the garden was created, the Kubota family, and the legacy of Japanese American resilience at the core of the grounds.