Harbor History Museum

Museum exhibits and research library: 2 custom History exhibits created each year in-house, 2-3 custom art exhibits highlighting pacific northwest adult and youth artists; offers a traveling exhibit program. The research library provides History, photograph, biography, and genealogy research onsite, by phone and email request.

Educational and community outreach: workshops, lectures, tours, and special events relating to current exhibits (sometimes partnering with area non-profits and art groups), the pioneer school experience which provides curriculum-based History lessons to more than 1,500 Peninsula area students annually in the 1893 one-room schoolhouse.

Restoration and preservation of the: a) 1925 commercial fishing vessel shenandoah,; funding by a Washington state heritage grant, pierce county historic preservation commission, humanitites Washington, and local donors; volunteer-based under the guidance of a shipwright; includes public outreach to showcase the restoration techniques, process and tools; b)1893 midway one-room schoolhouse; provides immersion experience for students into the History of schoolhouse education; funding by Gig Harbor garden tour association; and c) restoration,preservation, and interpretation of the 1958 thunderbird hull number 1 sailboat, built at the eddon boat company in Gig Harbor.