Museum’s Syre Center open

Whatcom Museum’s Syre Education Center will be open noon to 5 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays from Thursday, Jan. 7, to Friday, Feb. 5, while the museum’s Lightcatcher galleries are between major exhibitions.

Admission of $5 allows entry to all three Whatcom Museum buildings: the Lightcatcher, Old City Hall and the Syre.

The Syre Center, in a former Bellingham Fire Department station at 201 Prospect St., features natural history displays that represent pioneer life, logging and Native Americans — plus an impressive collection of taxidermied birds. The building is normally open only to school groups and for special events.　

Robert Mittendorf

This story was originally published January 5, 2016 at 4:01 AM with the headline "Museum’s Syre Center open."