{"id":490,"date":"2024-10-09T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/?page_id=490"},"modified":"2025-10-22T10:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:24:31","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charles R. Conner Museum<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--sidebar-right\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2019\/03\/Magpie-primaries.jpg\" alt=\"Magpie feathers\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2019\/03\/Magpie-primaries.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-cas\/uploads\/sites\/1363\/2019\/03\/Magpie-primaries-396x297.jpg 396w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Primary feathers of a Black-billed Magpie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brief History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Conner Museum traces its beginnings to 1894, when Charles R. Conner, president of the Board of Regents, persuaded the state of Washington to donate its exhibits from the Chicago World&#8217;s Fair to the fledgling Washington Agricultural College. Those first exhibits came from a mixture of several disciplines including anthropology, geology, biology, and agriculture. Over time and through the influence of successive curators, the museum&#8217;s theme gradually narrowed and focused on vertebrate animals. Today, the museum&#8217;s public exhibit includes over 700 mounts of birds and mammals. The scientific collection used by researchers houses over 60,000 specimens of birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hours<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Open 7 days\/week<br>8:00 a.m. &#8211; 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Closed on major holidays and during the annual University closure between Christmas Eve and New Years Day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Admission<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Free<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Location<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>South end of the first floor of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusmap.wsu.edu\/building-list\/academics\/abelson.html\">Abelson Hall<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Groups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Schools, clubs, and other groups are welcome. No reservations needed for gallery visits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We prefer e-mails over phone calls due to the high volume of spam calls we receive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Phone: 509-335-3515<br>connermuseum@wsu.edu<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charles R. Conner Museum &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11284,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/490\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbs.wsu.edu\/conner-museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}