On the University of Washington campus, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture is where Seattle families meet a real T. rex — the famous ‘Tufts-Love Rex’ — alongside mammoth tusks, gemstones and the living cultures of the Pacific Northwest and the Pacific Islands.
The museum’s glass-walled labs let kids watch scientists at work preparing fossils and caring for collections, while family programs, fossil days and free admission days invite young paleontologists to dig deeper.
Bright, modern and proudly hands-on, the Burke turns a campus visit into a journey through 16,000 years of Northwest history — and a few million years of dinosaurs before that.
