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Show Provo, Utah Sunday, April 16, 2000. THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HaATheHeTald.com), The way iiwas Museum shows off history of Pacific Northwest By SHANA McNALLY I? Associated Press Writer - tech and start-up- s coffee chains, Native American cultures colored the landscape and prehistoric creatures roamed the terrain. It is this history of the region that is explored at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. ' The only major science museum north of San Francisco and west of the Rockies, the Burke Museum allows visitors to see the Pacific Northwest 545 million years ago and follow it into present day. The highlight of the museum is the "Life and Times of Washington State" exhibit. This hands-ointeractive adventure shows visitors the only real dinosaur skeleton found in the Northwest, the allosaurus, and takes them n inside a replica cave formed when an ancient rhino was trapped by a lava flow in eastern Washington. Visitors see the creatures that lived here millions of years ago, including skeletal displays "Encourage your children to read a ft fjpfe5 YOU GO What: The Burke Museum t Where: University of Washington, at the intersection of Northeast 45th Street .and 17th Avenue Northeast, Seattle When: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily and weekends except for Thursdays 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost $5.50 adults, $4 seniors and free for children age five and under. The museum's website is Contact: (206) www.washington.eduburkemuseum. SEATTLE (AP) Long before the Pacific Northwest evolved into a home for high- -- newspaper every day . They may grow up to make this a more peaceful world." , 543-559- of a mastodon and Ice Age mammals such as the oldest baleen whale fossil in the world, at 30 million years old. "I like how the animals show what Seattle was like before the people existed," said Sarah Hiraki, 9, visiting the museum with her mother. The museum was named for Seattle Judge Thomas Burke (1849-1925whose wife, Caroline McGilvra Burke, left a bequest to the University of Washington to create a memorial to him. It started as the Washington State Museum in 1899 and was renamed when the present building opened in 1964. Aside from the permanent state Washington history exhibit, the Burke museum has :'f Jimmy Carter, former President 1 a permanent exhibit on "Pacific Voices," which highlights the stories, ceremonies, languages and teachings that kept alive cultures of the Pacific Rim, native North including Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders. "I think the museum does a good job of relating the cultures of the people to the residents of Washington," said visitor Cindy Hiraki, 40, of Seattle. "They bring the past and the present ), first-tim- Page It all starts " tfith newspapers. K) For the best view of your world. e together." Displays feature a Korean wedding ceremony, a Lao fire Samoans rocket festival, bestowing chiefly titles and the Japanese celebrating life. Each exhibit is interactive. For example, visitors viewing a Chinese BARRY SWEETThe Associated Press time ago ... Above, 14-1ancient skulls are on display at the Burke Museum in Seattle. Below, the museum is located on the University of Washington campus. A long 6 New Year dinner table press a button representing each dish served to learn the significance of each food. Other displays include the first salmon ceremony and a Hawaiian hula dance. Each includes objects central to the culture such as a cannibal mask, a grouse rattle, fire rockets, a Raven headdress for a Tlingit chief and carved puppets of wood, buffalo hide, human hair and silk. Each object also, tells a story. For example, a storyknife of a Yup'ik girl of western Alaska was not used to carve meat, but " to illustrate stories in the mud or snow. The museum's current temporary exhibit, which is featured until Sept. 17, is "Mountain Patterns: Survival of Nuosu Culture in China."' Put together with the help of two Chinese scholars, it is the first major North American exhibit of the handiwork of China's mountain-dwellerDisplays include patterned clothihg, silver jewelry, colorfully lacquered wood utensils and religious icons, all of which reveals a culture currently undergoing a revival and relying' heavily on the spirit world. : NEW YORK BROADWAY New York City. Cruise Air Accommodations, Sightseeing & Cruise Only $1529 May CANADIAN ROCKIES BY RAIL Beautiful British Columbia Sightseeing by Train, Hotel Air Out of Accommodations, Salt Lake 'June 7 City $1995 PORTLAND ROSE FESTIVAL & VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA Beautiful Rose Parade, Great Entertainment, Fantatastic Sightseeing June $995 . 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