Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE and the museum is open until 8 pm on the first Thursday of every month. Get closer to the daily work happening in the Burke Museum’s visible collections storage, labs and workrooms during Free First Thursday.

Admission to the Burke Museum is FREE and the museum is open until 8 pm on the first Thursday of every month. Get closer to the daily work happening in the Burke Museum’s visible collections storage, labs and workrooms during Free First Thursday.

Join us for the opening celebration of In Plain Sight, a museum-wide exhibition featuring the work of fourteen national and international artists.

Join writer Ariel Goldberg for a reading from "A Century", their current novel-in-progress, which imagines the often erased details of queer life.

Visit the Allen Library South Basement to immerse yourself in the influences on Morris and his creative artistic work in textiles, stained glass, furniture, wallpaper, ceramics and ultimately type designing and letterpress printing.

Join The Department of Asian Languages and Literature for another dramatic recitation of a piece of classical Japanese literature. In this modern retelling of one of the most famous stories in Japanese samurai lore, the talented Kima Hotta will recite an adaptation of the novel Ninjō: Ataka no seki by Hiroaki Toda, which fleshes out the story for contemporary audiences and adds its own clever twist.

Scandinavian Studies professor Marianne Stecher will discuss Hans Christian Andersen’s futuristic fairy tales, which were inspired by science and technology. Stecher’s talk is the latest in the Scandinavian 30 series at the Nordic Museum, featuring 30-minutes talks by UW Scandinavian Studies faculty.

A worker cage, karaoke, sleep trackers, and virtual assistants all feature in this exhibition of new work by James Coupe, Associate Professor in DXARTS.