- COAST SALISH BASKETS
- Coast Salish Baskets
The Whatcom Museum's Collection contains more than 120 baskets identified as Coast Salish. They were gifted to the museum between 1941 and 2009 by generous donors including the E... View Exhibit Page 
- HELMI JUVONEN: SYMBOL, MYTH, FANTASY
- Helmi Juvonen
Helmi Dagmar Juvonen, known in her day simply as Helmi, was a prolific artist whose creativity embraced many media - paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, and ceramics. She was particul... View Exhibit Page 
- ELIZABETH COLBORNE: EVERGREEN MUSE
- Elizabeth Colborne
Elizabeth Colborne was one of the most interesting, original, and accomplished artists active in Washington State during the first half of the 20th century and is most remembered for... View Exhibit Page 
- LOUIS MIDEKE: A LASTING IMPRESSION
- Louis Mideke
Artist Louis Mideke (1908-1989) exemplifies the Northwest arts traditions of simplicity, utility, and innovative use of locally sourced materials. He identified as a potter but created... View Exhibit Page 
- NORTHWEST WOMEN ARTISTS: 1880 — 2010
- Northwest Women Artists
Many of the artworks pictured here were included in an exhibition and accompanying catalogue titled, Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010. The exhibition coi... View Exhibit Page 
- PEOPLE OF THE SEA AND CEDAR: A JOURNEY THROUGH THE TRIBAL CULTURES AND HISTORY OF THE NORTHWEST COAST
- People of the Sea and Cedar
This virtual exhibit is a companion to Whatcom Museum's recently reinstalled exhibition entitled People of the Sea and Cedar: A Journey Through the Tribal Cultures and Hist... View Exhibit Page 
- CLASSIC VINTAGE IMAGES: FROM THE COLLECTION
- Reflecting Back
The Whatcom Museum's Vintage Photograph Collection includes images from well-known regional photographers such as Clyde Banks, Asahel Curtis, Beverly Dobbs, O. E. Garland, J. B. Hann, E.... View Exhibit Page 
- ROMANTICALLY MODERN: Pacific Northwest Landscapes
- Curated by Barbara Matilsky, Curator of Art, Whatcom Museum
This exhibition highlights the rich legacy of landscape painting in the Pacific Northwest. Works reflect the artist's search for a spiritual experience that was called "the sublime... View Exhibit Page
- DOW WALLING: THE COMIC WORLD OF SKEETS
- The Comic World of Skeets
Dow Walling (1902-1987) was a self-taught comic creator and illustrator whose full-page color strip "Skeets" ran on Sundays in the New York Herald Tribune and in national... View Exhibit Page 
- GALEN BIERY COLLECTION
- Galen Biery
Galen Biery was born in Bellingham, Washington on December 23, 1910 to Harriet and Theophilius Osselus Biery. Galen's father had come west in 1889, married a school teacher from Anacortes... View Exhibit Page 
- ELIAS BREIDFORD COLLECTION: PHOTOGRAPHS OF BLAINE AND BIRCH BAY
- Elias Breidford
Elias Breidford was born April 6, 1900, in Southern Manitoba, Canada, to August and Margret Breidford, both of whom immigrated from Iceland. When only three months of age, Elias con... View Exhibit Page 
- CLEARLY ART: THE BEAUTY OF GLASS
- Clearly Art
Clearly Art shares its name with another exhibition that opened at the Whatcom Museum twenty years ago. Titled Clearly Art: Pilchuck's Glass Legacy, it traveled to a dozen mu... View Exhibit Page 
- HENRY BROWN COLLECTION
- Henry Brown
Henry William Brown was born in Canada on July 17, 1851 to parents originally from Ireland. Brown left home in 1865, when he was fourteen years old, and moved to Montana at the age of eig... View Exhibit Page 
- JACK CARVER COLLECTION
- Jack Carver
Jack Carver was staff photographer for The Bellingham Herald from 1945 to 1981; indeed much of this time he was the Herald's only photographer. Though the newspaper routinely... View Exhibit Page 
- LESLIE CORBETT COLLECTION: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LUMMI ISLAND AND POINT ROBERTS
- Leslie Corbett
Little is known of Leslie Corbett's life beyond a few sparse details. He was born on Febuary 9, 1882, in Grand Island, Nebraska and married Martha G. Harding, probably also in Nebras... View Exhibit Page 
- ANTELOPE DOC COLLECTION: VIEWS OF THE YUKON
- Antelope Doc
Included in the Moran Brothers Collection donated to the Whatcom Museum were 33 images stamped "Yukon Views by Antelope Doc." A colorful 'Wild West' character, Antelope Doc roamed fro... View Exhibit Page 
- H.C. HANSON COLLECTION: NAVAL ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION
- H.C. Hanson
Born Oct. 9, 1892 in Tacoma, Washington, Harold Cornelius Hanson learned shipbuilding during his teenage years from his father, who was superintendent of shipyards for Pacific American Fis... View Exhibit Page 
- WILL E. HUDSON: DEAN OF NEWSREEL MEN
- The Will Hudson Collection
Will E. "Bill" Hudson began working as a staff newsreel cameraman for Pathe News in 1916 and covered the Pacific Northwest for Pathe until his death on November 12, 1945. Duri... View Exhibit Page 
- BERT HUNTOON COLLECTION
- Bert W. Huntoon
Berton Waldron Huntoon was born in Sacramento, California, on February 6, 1870, moving with his family to Seattle, Washington, in 1883. By age sixteen, Huntoon had joined a voluntee... View Exhibit Page 
- DARIUS AND TABITHA KINSEY COLLECTION
- The Kinseys
Darius and Tabitha Kinsey were a remarkable husband and wife photographic team whose partnership began in Whatcom County in 1896. With Darius taking photographs in the field and Tabitha dev... View Exhibit Page 
- MORAN BROTHERS SHIPYARD COLLECTION
- Robert Moran
Robert Moran was born in New York City on January 26, 1857. In 1875, at the age of 18, he followed Horace Greeley's advice and went west, to San Francisco. The whole nation was economic... View Exhibit Page 
- SANDISON COLLECTION
- James Sandison
James Wilbur Sandison was born March 3, 1873, on a farm in Cedar Springs, Ontario, Canada. He spent his boyhood in Kingsville, Ontario, where he attended public schools. As a young man... View Exhibit Page 
- JAMES WARWICK VAUDEVILLE COLLECTION: A BY—GONE PHENOMENON
- James Warwick Vaudeville Collection
The James Warwick Vaudeville Collection consists of 773 black and white images of vaudeville performers from across the nation who performed at Beck's and Grand Theater... View Exhibit Page 
- PORTRAITS OF THE REGION'S EARLY GREATS: FROM THE COLLECTION
- Portraits of the Past
The birth of portrait photography occurred when French painter Louis Daguerre introduced his revolutionary process in 1839. Requiring only minutes of exposure, daguerreotypes nonet... View Exhibit Page 
- BELLINGHAM HOUSES: ARTS & CRAFTS ERA
- Arts & Crafts in Bellingham
The American Arts & Crafts Movement had a profound influence on residential architecture in Bellingham during the first two decades of the 20th century. An Arts & Crafts aesthe... View Exhibit Page
- MT. BAKER MARATHON: THE INSPIRATION FOR SEA TO SKI
- An Extreme Case of Boosterism
A footrace to the summit of Mount Baker was a promotional scheme championed by the Mount Baker Club – a local booster organization composed of Bellingham businessm... View Exhibit Page