[cid:image008.jpg@01D56D3D.2C187290] The Washington State History Museum is FREE every Third Thursday from 3:00-8:00 PM. See our featured exhibitions, Little Black Dress: A Fashion Evolution and A New Moon Rises along with our permanent exhibitions. There are also two special events on Thursday evening this week: The History of Space Exploration Scholarly Selections September 19, 6:30 PM FREE [http://www.washingtonhistory.org/img/events/untitled-32.jpg] Discover the complicated history, politics, and future of space exploration with Aerospace Engineer and UWT Senior Lecturer Emeritus Linda Dawson, who worked on the space shuttle program at NASA's Houston Control Center. Then visit the Washington State History Museum's exhibit "A New Moon Rises,"<http://www.washingtonhistory.org/visit/wshm/exhibits/moon/> featuring 51 dramatic, large-scale landscape images of the Moon's surface. Image: Apollo 16 lunar surface, Washington State Historical Society Catalog ID Number: C1978.11.6.3 Scholarly Selections is a partnership between the UW Tacoma School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences and the Washington State History Museum, Scholarly Selections brings UWT scholars' work to the public in an informal setting. Talks are held on the Third Thursday of the month when admission to the museum is free. Japanese American Community Resource Scanning Day September 19, 3:00-7:00 PM History Museum [cid:image010.jpg@01D56D3D.2C187290] The Washington State History Museum is developing a new exhibition about the Japanese American experience in Washington during the time leading up to WWII and Executive Order 9066, the immediate impacts, post-incarceration relocation, and the lasting legacy of EO 9066 through today. We are looking for resources in our community to help tell this story. Is this legacy part of your story? We would be grateful for the opportunity to scan your related photographs, letters, documents, drawings, paintings, diaries, journals, flyers, pamphlets or other items, and add the digital images to our archive. In collaboration with Densho<https://densho.org/>, we will scan your items on the spot and return them to you, along with a thank you gift of a 2 gb thumb drive with your scans and archival envelopes for storing your materials. You can sign up for a scheduled scanning time in advance here<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7LDG7RJ> (https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/7LDG7RJ) or call Lead Curator Gwen Whiting at 253-798-5927. Find out more on our website at WashingtonHistory.org/9066. Washington State Historical Society 1911 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402 Become a member<http://www.washingtonhistory.org/support/membership/>! WashingtonHistory.org<http://www.washingtonhistory.org/> [cid:image001.png@01D2A2FC.A0C30780]<https://www.facebook.com/washingtonhistory/> [cid:image002.png@01D2A2FC.A0C30780] <https://twitter.com/HistoryMuseum> [cid:image003.png@01D2A2FC.A0C30780] <https://www.instagram.com/washingtonhistory/> [cid:image004.png@01D2A2FC.A0C30780] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZRXAl-JqixtE7toeX4BTrg>