Vancouver Sun Visits Karpeles Museum

The Vancouver Sun came to Tacoma and, rather than focus on the other new museums, and similar to our Chicago Sun writer, has written about the Karpeles Manuscript Museum.  When I first saw the museum back in the early 1990s I wondered about why it was here.  Why Tacoma?  “When Karpeles opened the museum in 1991, he predicted that Tacoma would one day become “a city of museums” and time has proven him exactly right.”  The location has always seemed a bit odd – a museum in the middle of apartment buildings on the edge of downtown.  The quality has always seemed really high, yet nobody seems to know about it.  Maybe that will be changing.

The Karpeles Manuscript Museum is a lot like that famous box of chocolates that Tom Hanks was always going on about in the classic 1996 movie Forrest Gump. Like his Mama said: “You never know what you’re going to get.”

I think this museum is on our shortlist of places to get to once again.  It’s beautiful in Tacoma right now.  Time for a walk. 

Link to the Vancouver Sun

Link to Karpeles Musem – Tacoma