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Founders Exhibit Rooms

​Mortimer Cook was the founder of the town of Sedro, formerly known as Bug. Here you'll find an extensive military exhibit including WWII and the home front, items from the Cook family, a bandstand and vintage instruments, regalia from fraternal orders, service clubs, and youth organizations, and enough odd artifacts to keep you browsing for quite some time.​
P.A. Woolley was the founder of (you guessed it), the town of Woolley. In the P.A. Woolley Room, you'll find the schoolroom (complete with the bell from the Sterling School, rescued from a dump). Visit the 1950s diner, the old-time barber shop, and marvel at the vintage equipment from laundries of yesteryear. 

Our exhibits are always being refreshed and reimagined!
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Explore the rich heritage of the Upper Skagit people.
Check out our classic fire engine at the firehouse.
Find your first camera on the wall of cameras in the P.A. Woolley Room.
Visit City Hall and the jail. Look for the real bullet holes in the desk!
Browse our extensive military exhibit, located in the Mortimer Cook Room.
Investigate the Northern State Hospital exhibit, and learn about the state mental institution and our earliest hospitals.
Click here to view a brief King 5 video on NSH.
Vintage Cars
Don't miss the H.O. scale train layout. Trains run during our monthly events!
Learn of the Tar Heels--early 20th century immigrants to Skagit County from North Carolina.
Visit the stable and view the trusty old tools and farming equipment.
Pass some time in the vintage schoolroom. If you're naughty, you'll end up in the ice house. You'll see what we mean when you visit.

 Model Train 

Gone is the historic Sedro-Woolley Dream Theatre, but you can attend an event in our museum replica!
Ancient phones. Your grandma's phone. 1970s phones. The Coca-Cola phone. The first cell phone. We have them all.


Check out the innovations that made Skagit Steel the cutting-edge industry of Sedro-Woolley.
Train Station exhibit coming soon!!


Barber Shop
You'll have to come in to see the rest! Explore logging and mining history, attend an event in the Dream Theater, visit the blacksmith shop and the gigantic printing press, stroll through an old-fashioned kitchen, inspect the antique vehicles, do some research in the library, spend an hour or two perusing hundreds of historical photographs--we promise you'll want to come back and see all the things you missed.