Celebrating 50 Years

In 2025, the CIC Museum welcomed about 7,000 visitors during student field trips, regular museum open hours, museum group tours. To accommodate more students – particularly in rainy months – we're designing new exterior structures, including a sheltered outdoor classroom, larger (covered) entryway, and extra office space.

We want our museum grounds to show to students and adults the many habitats, species, and histories of our region. We plan to completely relandscape our campus to add interactive children's features, hundreds of new plants, and to create a storywalk that ties together our trails and museum. All this will enhance the educational potential of the CIC Museum for Grays Harbor residents and visitors by showcasing the unique landscape we call home.

We are a small, but dedicated, staff. But to educate more students and bring CIC programs to more people, we need to ensure greater funding stability. As part of our 50th anniversary campaign, we will be raising funds to reinvest in education programs, particularly to support student field trips and internships.

As an organization we make a point to keep our museum fresh (inside and outside). To reflect changing visitor habits and rising visitor traffic, we plan to fully update interior and exterior exhibits to bring new information to our displays, bring items out from collections storage into the public, and include as many cultures in our exhibits as possible.