News & Stories

Curatorship honors decades of contributions to the field of archaeology and repatriation

Burke Curator of Birds Alejandro Rico-Guevara dreamed up an incredible flight arena to study how hummingbirds feed, fly, and use energy.

After 16 years as Executive Director at the Burke Museum, Dr. Julie K. Stein will retire in March 2022.

From Seattle’s Seward Park to a coral reef in the South Pacific, a new special exhibition opening at the Burke Museum—Life in One Cubic Foot—reveals the diversity of nature in our local neighborhoods and across the globe.

Learn more about some of Seattle's connections to Indigenous Taiwanese tatalas.

Dr. Gabriela Chavarria has been named the next Executive Director of the Burke Museum.

Posters from ANTH 369 Indigenous Epistemologies and Oceanic Canoes

In early 2021, the Burke Museum invited four distinguished scholars to conduct its own academic review—the very first completed in the museum’s 136-year history.

Being reaccredited by the American Alliance of Museums is the museum field’s gold standard of excellence.