Yakima Valley Museum

This Yakima Valley Museum, located in Yakima's beautiful Franklin Park, offers historical exhibits on the Yakima Valley-its natural history, Plateau cultural objects, pioneer life, early city life, and the roots and development of the Valley's fruit industry. The museum has a superb collection of horse-drawn vehicles, from stagecoach to hearse; an historical exhibit and reconstruction of the Washington D.C. office of former Yakima resident and environmentalist, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas

he Museum Store offers a unique assortment of gifts, souvenirs, toys, cards, and collectibles ...plus one of the best selections of books on local culture, history, and nature in Yakima.

The Yakima Valley Museum banquet and conference hall looks out on beautiful Franklin Park. Call for information on renting this unique space for your next social or business function. Also available to rent are a more intimate conference room, the spacious Helen N. Jewett Entrance Galler,y and the H.M. Gilbert Homeplace.

The Museum Soda Fountain is a functioning replica of a late 1930s Art Deco soda fountain. Furnished with salvaged and restored parts of soda fountains which once operated in Yakima, this piece of history serves ice cream treats and other fountain favorites for visitors to the museum and Franklin Park. The Museum Soda Fountain is closed during the winter months.

A collection of orchard equipment and related agricultural objects traces the history of agriculture in the Valley, from the earliest irrigated gardens planted by the Yakama Indians to the modern tree fruit and produce industry that has made the Yakima Valley the "fruitbowl of the nation." Collections of historic tools, appliances, furniture, and household items document Yakima Valley's material culture from the mid-19th century to the present.

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