Share Valley History with Future Generations

Typical Year Programming:

The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Society volunteers and one part-time employee operate the Museum in Gardiner Weeks Park that discovers, collects, preserves, and interprets the history of the City of North Bend and its environs.  The Museum normally operates year-round (Mondays and Tuesdays from 1pm to 5pm) and April through October (Saturdays through Tuesdays from 1pm to 5pm). The Museum is also open via appointment for special tours for groups.

Our Museum currently houses over 20,000 objects, books, and archival records, over 12,000 historic photographs and over 100,000 photographic negatives. 

Services for Tourists

The Museum provides tourist information and services in the upper Snoqualmie Valley. This service has increased since the closing of the Visitor Center across the street. The Museum provides exterior exhibits for visitors to the Gardiner Weeks Park with our Farm Shed exhibits and additional interpretive panels on the exterior of the buildings. We have expanded the exterior exhibits in response to the pandemic. Approximately half of the Museum’s visitors are from the Snoqualmie Valley, while the other half are residents from the Puget Sound Region, out-of-state visitors, and international tourists. 

The Museum routinely answers inquiries from tourists about other tourist destinations in the community, as well as lunch and lodging options. 

The Museum provides the only public restroom in the Gardiner Weeks Park. 

Services for Agency Projects

The Museum works with regional partners such as the City of North Bend, Snoqualmie Valley School District, the King County Library system, the Mountains to Sound Greenway, the Snoqualmie Valley Record, the savorsnoqualmievalley.org website, the American Legion, the Snoqualmie Tribe, Fall City Historical Society and the Cedar River Watershed.

Services for Residents

The Museum works with local residents who are interested in genealogy, the history of their homes, the history of the community, and who often want to use historic photographs as part of the décor of their homes and businesses. The Museum has seen a steady increase in the number of people wishing to access historic photographs.

We publish two newsletters each year, and we publish and sell books about Snoqualmie Valley history.

Services Online 

The Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum reaches people all over the world and connects them to the history of North Bend and the greater Snoqualmie Valley. 

• We daily post on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We currently have 5,166 followers on Facebook and typical weeks our posts reach over 14,000 people. 
• 25.6% of our followers live in our service area, which reaches from Fall City and Preston to Snoqualmie Pass. 
• 93.3% of our followers live in the United States. 
• Our international followers include people from Canada (33), Italy (27), the UK (20), Spain (8), Australia and Germany (7), Brazil (6), Mexico and Norway (5), Poland (4), and smaller numbers from India, Hungary, Argentina, Finland, France, New Zealand, Chile, Egypt, Portugal, Ukraine, Morocco, Columbia, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Greece, Switzerland, Peru, Denmark, Bulgaria, Iran, Serbia, Russia, Rwanda, Sweden, Turkey, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Japan and Bangladesh. 
• 57% of our followers are women; 43% are men.
• We currently have 587 Instagram Followers, 35 Youtube Followers and 6 Twitter Followers. 
• In the first 8 month of 2021 we have had over 11,000 views of our website from over 6,700 visitors. 
• Over 500 of those website visitors have been from other countries around the world.

Newsletters and Magazines

Most newsletters and magazines are distributed  to people living in our service area. In addition, other subscribers include: 89 addresses in other King County cities, 47 addresses in Washington cities outside of King County, and 52 addresses in other states and the District of Columbia.