The Burke Museum is OPEN! Pre-purchased, timed tickets are required for all visitors—including Burke members, UW card holders, and children age 3 and under—to maintain physical distancing and manage capacity in the museum. View our Welcome Back Guidelines. See you soon!
Learn how Burke Curator of Ornithology Alejandro Rico-Guevara uses high speed cameras to study the aerial acrobatics, feeding behaviors, and mid-air battles of hummingbirds.
Larval fish may be small, but they can tell us a lot about the state of our oceans! Learn from Jenna Barrett, a staff ichthyologist, about how she works with baby fish and the questions they can help us answer.
You asked and Rod Crawford answered! Our resident spider expert, Curator Rod Crawford, answers your spider questions in our latest Burke from Home Q&A.
Come about learn about our native garter snakes with Herpetology Collection Manager Peter Miller and how to identify these amazing creatures. Oh, and you'll also learn how they got named after old timey socks in the first place!
Come learn about the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea from the collections of Dave Cole, one of the very first archaeologists to survey the region.
A 1992 construction site led to a significant discovery of cultural remains of local Native Americans that lived at and used the site for thousands of years.