Arts & Culture
Historic downtown Prosser theatre and performing-arts center – seasonal youth and adult productions, monthly jazz concerts, and a wedding/event venue.
Locally owned art gallery and custom framing shop in Historic Downtown Kennewick – original work by area artists plus expert framing.
Creative studio and art gallery in Historic Downtown Kennewick – a design practice plus a rotating gallery of local and regional art.
Prosser’s history museum in City Park – 20,000+ items including pioneer and Native American artifacts, a shrub-steppe diorama, Edison phonographs, and Victorian-era reconstructions.
Kennewick veterans memorial in Columbia Park – a 40-foot granite monument (said to be the tallest freestanding granite in the U.S.) honoring those who served.
Kennewick outdoor memorial built around a ~30-foot steel beam recovered from the World Trade Center – a free place of reflection, with an annual 9/11 service.
Museum in the historic 1942 NAS Pasco control tower at the Tri-Cities Airport – 100+ years of local aviation history, from airmail pioneers to a WWII Navy training base.
Active Ice Age mammoth dig near Kennewick run by nonprofit MCBONES – reservation-only guided tours (mid-April–October, ~$10) of the Dig House and open excavation.
Richland museum devoted to quilting and fiber arts – rotating quilt exhibitions, classes, monthly guild meetings, and a quilting library.
Columbia Basin College’s Pasco arts hub since 1971 – theatre, musicals, and a music series, plus the free Esvelt Gallery of visiting, faculty, and student art.
Richland contemporary art gallery and nonprofit spotlighting emerging and diverse artists, with rotating exhibitions and community arts events.
Richland youth theatre staging ~5 family-friendly mainstage productions a season, plus year-round acting and musical-theatre classes for kids.
Richland visitor center for Manhattan Project National Historical Park – free exhibits and ranger ‘Atomic Explorations’ programs on the Hanford atomic story. (B Reactor bus tours paused through 2028.)
Pasco’s history museum in the restored 1911 Carnegie Library – exhibits on Native American history, pioneers, and the region’s rail, river, and aviation past.
One of Washington’s oldest community theaters, staging plays and musicals on The Parkway in downtown Richland since the 1940s.
Nonprofit Richland art gallery beside Howard Amon Park – work from 200+ local artists, monthly featured shows, and free admission.
Kennewick’s fully restored 1910 Charles Carmel carousel – 45 museum-caliber hand-carved horses (plus a Cougar and a Husky) in a year-round pavilion.
267-acre Pasco day-use state park at the Snake/Columbia confluence – Lewis & Clark history, interpretive center, Maya Lin story circles, and river access.
The Tri-Cities’ premier museum in Richland – galleries on Ice Age floods, Plateau Tribes, and the Manhattan Project, plus riverfront gardens.
Beloved downtown Prosser coffee shop and intimate live-music venue in a historic 1906 building, with in-house roasted coffee and bagels.