{"id":68,"date":"2012-08-14T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2022-06-02T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T23:29:11","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Home of the Index-Pickett Historical Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pickett Museum is available by appointment during the Fall\/Winter\/Spring seasons. To arrange a visit for your family, group or class please call 360-793-1534.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We hope you can join us for one of our upcoming <a title=\"Events\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/?page_id=193\">Events<\/a>!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Index-Pickett Historical Museum is in the former home of nationally known photographer Lee Pickett whose collection of glass and film negatives is held at the University of Washington&#8217;s Allen Library, Special Collections. The museum documents Index area history using his photos as well as hundreds of images and artifacts contributed by the community since Pickett&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hours &amp; Directions<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Pickett Museum is open from 1pm to 4pm on Fridays and Saturdays from Memorial Day weekend through September and offers private\/custom mid-week tours by appointment. You will find not only exhibits but videos, a computer photo catalog, and a computer mapping system for comparing town property ownership decade by decade.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Museum Tours by Request<\/strong><br \/>\nMuseum Tours are available year-round for your family or group. Please contact us for availability. You can also arrange an Index Historical Walking Tour for a group of between 5-12 people throughout the year! Please call 360-793-1534 to request a date. Suggested donation is $5 per person and each participant receives a commemorative map of the town with thumbnail images.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/96-8-aug1-index-museum-front-entry.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-137\" title=\"Index-Pickett Historical Museum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/96-8-aug1-index-museum-front-entry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/96-8-aug1-index-museum-front-entry.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/96-8-aug1-index-museum-front-entry-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pickett Museum is available by appointment during the Fall\/Winter\/Spring seasons. To arrange a visit for your family, group or class please call 360-793-1534. We hope you can join us for one of our upcoming Events!\u00a0 The Index-Pickett Historical Museum &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexhistoricalsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}