Visitors at the edge of the model hall under spotlights.
Visitors browsing model locomotives in glass display cases inside the museum.

The museum · A new world · Opening 2029

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A museum and learning center in downtown Snoqualmie, designed by Olson Kundig.

The visitor journey

Experience a New World

Steam locomotive crossing a truss bridge in the model hall.

01 · Explore

The Model Hall

The Model Hall

Step into a hand-built world of real western places, detailed down to the rock and soil. Follow a train through a canyon and it’s easy to lose yourself in it.

Families exploring the learning space.

02 · Learn

The Learning Space

The Learning Space

Carry that fascination into hands-on learning, where the scenes you just explored become lessons in engineering, history and art.

Architecture

Designed by Olson Kundig

Evening view of the museum’s glass street front.
Children gathered outside the glass-walled maker space inside the museum.
Exhibit gallery with locomotives in glass cases.
Families on the museum’s timber upper deck overlooking a boxcar and the mountains.
Front plaza with the rusted water tower.
Visitors in a gallery beside a tall glass wall of stored model trains.
Timber viewing deck with Mt. Si.
Families browsing train books and toys in the museum store.
Section rendering of the event space.

Educational & Social

With room to learn, build and gather

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Makers Space

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A flexible, hands-on workshop with arts and engineering programs. Build, wire and paint alongside the museum’s craftspeople.

Event Space

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Viewing Deck

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Lobby

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Hands-on building in the makers space.
The learning space.
Entry walkway into the lobby.
Event space.
The viewing deck.

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