Black and white photo of two men operating a series of wall dials and looking at gauges

There Was a Time: Whimsical Relics & Eclectic Images

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December 10, 2022 - May 21, 2023

Old City Hall

The Whatcom Museum collects, safeguards, and makes accessible thousands of artifacts which we hold in trust for the community. But why keep this stuff? What do these artifacts tell us? The exhibition There Was a Time: Whimsical Relics & Eclectic Images will showcase a diversity of items from the Museum’s history collection and photo archives that rarely see the light of day. What these objects tell us about our shared sense of place, the past, and ultimately ourselves, is available for public interpretation. And it is a lot of fun!

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Black and white photo of a woman in a dress sitting at a table with a typewriter and a chicken standing on the table beside the typewriter
Black and white photo of two men operating a series of wall dials and looking at gauges
Metal cannon ball on a wooden pedestal with a label that says 36-lb cannon ball
Wreath made of human hair from the 1840s