For close to 100 years, the Puget Sound Museum has been an invaluable institution in the Puget Sound region.
History of the Puget Sound Museum
Museum Timeline - Images from the archives
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In May of 2023, the University of Puget Sound made the decision to remove the name James R. Slater from the museum and return it to its original name, Puget Sound Museum of Natural History. This decision came after Slater's problematic history was brought to light by Grace Eberhardt ’20.
Learn about the problematic history of James Slater, eugenics at the University of Puget Sound, & the renaming of the museum.
Written by Gordon A. Alcorn, one of the founders of the Puget Sound Museum.
Interested in knowing more about the Puget Sound Museum's founder, James R. Slater?
The Puget Sound Museum has changed immensely over the decades, but our love of collections & specimens has never changed!
Pictured: visitors enjoying museum specimens at the museum's open house event in its new Thompson Hall location, 1987.