News & Stories

As of March 1, 2022, Dr. Gabriela Chavarria is the new Executive Director of the Burke Museum.

The Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Native Art at the Burke Museum will be welcoming 12 individuals and groups into the museum as a part of their Connections to Culture Visiting Researcher Grant.

Director of Education Alvin Logan Jr. shares his thoughts on the start of Black History Month and finding purpose through the principles of Kwanza.

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.