News & Stories

SpongeBob’s fictional home is based on an actual place that was the location of 23 U.S. nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War era.

Tribal leaders returned to the Burke to offer a second cedar brushing ceremony as we near the end of the move.

When the former Burke Museum facility closed at the end of 2018, there was silence for the first time in the Pacific Voices gallery.

Katherine Maslenikov, Ichthyology Collection Manager, helps with underwater fieldwork along coral reefs in Roatan, Honduras.

Burke Museum paleontologists continue work on the rare T. rex skull, recently finding that all jaw and skull bones are there.

Researcher Ana Bedoya Ovalle returns to Colombia to collect and study river-weed plants in South America.

If you’ve been to the museum or walked by the main entrance lately, you may have noticed some changes to the outdoor art.

Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food ingredient and evidence of the transition to early farming practices in Indonesia.

Burke paleontologists travel to Zambia in search for answers to the most colossal extinction on earth.