The Burke Museum

The Burke Museum is the oldest public museum in Washington State with a collection of over 16 million artifacts and specimens, ranging from totem poles and gemstones to dinosaur fossils. Because the Burke’s collection is so wide-ranging and continues to grow – it is a collecting museum – the new building needed to serve as a coherent, effective container that would allow for flexibility over time. The building’s rational scheme holds the complexity of the Burke’s activities and collections, both now and into the future.

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Project Team Credits:
Olson Kundig Project Team: Tom Kundig, FAIA, RIBA, Design Principal; Stephen Yamada-Heidner, AIA, LEED® AP, Principal and Project Manager; Edward Lalonde and Justin Helmbrecht, LEED® AP, Project Architects; Gavin Argo, Julia Khorsand and Olivier Landa, AIA, LEED® AP BD+C, Architectural Staff; Phil Turner, Gizmo Design

Consultants: Skanska, General Contractor; BergerABAM, Laboratories; GGN, Landscape Architect; Lerch Bates, Elevators; Magnusson Klemencic Associates, Civil and Structural Engineer; Niteo Lighting, Lighting Design; RDH, Building Envelope; Stantec, Electrical Engineer; WSP, Mechanical Engineer; Turner Exhibits, Gizmo Fabrication; Cite Specific, Specifications; Walter Crimm Associates, Museum Programmer; Karen Braitmayer, Accessibility Consultant; Evidence Design, Exhibit Design

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Video Credits:
Directed & Edited by John Jeffcoat
Produced by Lisa Farnham
Cinematography by Doug Hostetter
Drone and additional photography by John Jeffcoat
music “Chapters” by Josh Leake

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