Art in the Garden – with Kristen Sholfield-Sweet Drum Paining, our second event from this summer’s series Art in the Garden, is coming on Tuesday, July 12. Please join local artists in the Museum Heritage Garden as they create original … Continued
Out of the Archives: A collection of George Sirk’s early films, both in 16mm and Super 8, will be presented at Manson’s Hall, Sunday, July 17. The festival is sponsored by Cortes Island Museum and Archives Society and ScanLab. The films … Continued
Desolation Sound Cruise Friday, July 8 Desolation Sound is a place of magnificent beauty, where mountains rise up from the sea in the deeply cut glacial fjords. Mount Denman dominates the scene, towering more than a mile high above narrow … Continued
WILD CORTES New Exhibits Opening Sunday, 29 May 2022, 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Free event. All ages welcome. Donations gratefully appreciated. Photo: Nighthawks over Cortes Bay taken by Melanie Boyle Come explore Wild Cortes as we kick off the summer … Continued
SPRING MIGRATION BIRDING EVENT – SATURDAY, MAY 7 Since 2004, the Cortes Island Museum has organized a Spring Migration Birding Event. This year we again invite everyone to participate individually or with a group you feel comfortable with. No registration … Continued
Cortes Museum Exhibition Opening Reflecting Light Portraits of Beauty – Cortes Island 2012–2022 Sunday, April 24, 2 – 4 pm If the novelist Dostoevsky is right and “beauty will save the world,” the subjects and setting of Reflecting Light, a … Continued
Cortes Island 2021/2022 Christmas Bird Count Results — by George Sirk. Sunday, 5 January 2022, was a wonderfully brisk birding day for the 29 participants of the Cortes Island Museum’s Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count (CBC). Probably the coldest weather in … Continued
Holiday Shopping at the Museum! Have a few more people on your holiday list? Come by the Museum Shop, 957 Beasley Road, one block up the hill from Manson’s Hall, to pick up beautiful, locally made gifts celebrating regional and … Continued
TALES FROM THE GARDEN OF INSANITY, art by Meinsje Vlaming, is currently on exhibition at the Old Schoolhouse Gallery on Cortes Island. Meinsje says she is not very comfortable with calling herself an artist, nor does she want to be … Continued
