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- EIN 91-1007501
- info@whalemuseum.org
- (360) 378-4710
- 62 1st St. N., PO Box 945 Friday Harbor WA 98250 USA
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Natural History & Natural Science Museums
Mission: The whale museum's mission is to promote stewardship of whales
Programs: Museum and store: the whale museum welcomed 34,030 visitors, providing education and cultural experiences about the salish sea ecosystem and its wildlife. As visitors enter and exit the museum through the museum store, the staff was reorganized as the vistors experience team. The manager began creating educational panels to further the mission of providing visitors with educational and supplemental materials to help them better understand and appreciate the whales and other marine life of the salish sea. The museum received a grant to help create audio tours in various languages, including spanish, french, german and japanese.
educational programs served more than 4,700 teachers, students and lay naturalists through more than 200 programs, tours and workshops focused on marine science,local ecology and history. The museum held events including a gear up and gear down workshop for naturalists, two pod nods, lectures, volunteer trainings and two marine naturalist training programs. The orca adoption program provided education packets about individual members of the endangered southern resident orca community to 2,991 or
the whale museum scientific research programs include soundwatch (education and research) which spent 123 days on the water documenting boater behavior and submitted an annual vessel trends report. New in 2016, soundwatch and the marine mammal stranding network joined together to provide dock talks at the port of friday harbor. The limekiln lighthouse research facility conducted research operations primarily seasound acoustics research (recording underwater sounds and whale vocalization) and str