Museum at Keewaydin — Attraction in Kennewick

It is a very small, one room, display of old things. It's set up in sections and almost has the feel of going into your great-grandma's house. Most things aren't behind glass or roped off, so kids can touch things. It's cute, but not somewhere you'd go back to multiple times since I don't believe they switch up the displays. The three stars it earned is mostly due to the passionate volunteers that run it. They seem to truly care about the history of the displays and are ready to answer any questions they can. They seem very approachable and friendly. The floor is one of my favorite parts of the museum. It's worth checking out if you're...

This museum is smaller and less formal than some of the other local museums we’ve been visiting in central Washington state. Still, it was well worth the visit with a nice assortment of artifacts, and told the story of Benton County including information on the Hanford site. It also had one really neat thing, that made the whole visit worthwhile. And these were handmade floor tiles made from slices of polished petrified wood, these were absolutely amazing. When I first saw them I thought they had to be fake, some kind of artificial product. If you appreciate beautiful building materials stop and just to see the tiles. You will not be...

One of the coolest historical sites I've visited in which youbget to see and actually engage with articats from our past. I even played on a pinball machine from 1972. The guide there, Ryan, was so knowledgeable and passionate about the artifacts which made it that much more fun. I'm so glad this place exists and I would love for it to get as much support it needs to be more engaged with by K-12, colleges, and even historians of popular culture and technology. They hosted me there to give a talk and the showing was good. If you like learning about how we got to the tech we have now, go look at our past at...