Shoreline Historical Museum

What a wonderful way to learn the history about the city of Shoreline. Shoreline didn’t become a city until June of 2005. But the museum has been around allot longer. It used to be right next to Shorewood High School but is now 185^th. & Aurora Ave. N.

I can’t believe I missed giving The Shoreline Historical museum a review. I have been here several times since discovering it 6 or 7 years ago.
Growing up in the Bitter Lake area, it holds some interest for me. I lived a block north of Bitter Lake, which at the time I was there (until age of 7) had Playland which was a huge (at least it seemed huge to a 7 year old) amusement park. The downstairs has a Playland exhibit, and brought memories of my two favorite rides — the train and the whatever it was called that had roller coaster like cars, but just went way up, turned and plunged down into a water filled moat.
This is a fairly well put together small museum. Definitely a good place to go visit on a rainy day.

Did you know Shoreline had a Historical Museum? I didn’t until I was driving up 99 the other day and saw a brown sign that said Historical Museum that way, so I went that way, I wanted to check it out.
It’s housed in the historic Ronald Elementary School building and it’s FREE! Yes another free thing to do in Seattle. The museum preserves, records and interprets the history of the Shoreline area which I found out is Broadview, Lake City, Lake Forest Park, North City, Richmond Beach and Ronald.
If you like antique radios they have a room on the third floor filled with historic radios and memorabilia and apparently it’s where the Puget Sound Antique Radio Association meets each month, in case you’re into that kind of thing.
The ‘exhibit’ I liked best was also on the third floor in the Jeanne Crane Room it was filled with newspaper clippings of crimes in the area many years ago. Everything from accidents to murders to prostitutions to missing people to assaults to robberies. Some of the articles were hard to read due to the photocopying of them but the details provided were interesting totally different from the way the news is reported today.
The rest of the museum is ok with more bits and pieces of history about the area. I’m glad I went but I doubt I’ll ever go back unless for some reason I need to do some research on something that happened in the Shoreline area. If you live in the area I say go check it out but if not don’t make a special trip.