The Whale Museum

This place is amazing! Reading all the stories about the pods and the Southern Resident Orcas brought tears to my eyes. 🥹 Especially the pitiful ones separated away from their beloved family.
I loved the Native American story about Orcas.

It is a great place to educate kids early. And me being a 33 year old adult, loved it throughly too! If you’re in Friday Harbor, do not miss out on this museum!

Beautiful museum. Extremely informative.

Very educational, and inspiring. I could see a whale brain as an exhibit. That was just wow. Definitely recommend going to this place while at San Juan!

Amazing place, their exhibits are really well done and they’re varied. A lot of beautiful art and their gift shop has a lot of cool stuff, I had to be careful not to buy one of each.

Highly recommend if you’re visiting, live here, with a family or by yourself.

Really well done exhibits with lots of information about the orcas and other whales, and very moving stories of some of the individual Southern Resident Killer Whales. Employees were kind and knowledgeable, and I attended a fantastic free talk at the museum by Brad Hanson about the status and health of the Southern Resident Killer Whale pods. If you’re planning a trip to San Juan Island the Whale Museum is whale worth a visit.

GOOD AT EDUCATION BUT MUSEUM NEEDS AN UPGRADE
The people here are passionate about educating humans on these wonderful creatures and what can be done to protect them.
However, the museum itself looks like it's from 1992 with very little interactivity and, in this day and age, that's expected. I hope they receive funding to update, as this is the perfect spot to learn about whales and then go out and see them in their natural habitat.
On the plus side, the gift shop was good with a nice range of products.

$10/adult. This is a super cool little museum with all kinds of information and displays that I learned a lot from! A quick stop I highly recommend.