Unusual museums in Spokane

Looking for unusual museums & collections in Spokane? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Fire Lookout Museum, Spokane Neon Museum, Bird Aviation Museum & Invention Center and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Spokane they'd never find on their own.

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Fire Lookout Museum Ray and Rita Kresek turned their one-acre north Spokane home into a shrine to forest fire lookout towers, pac… Spokane (north of downtown)
Spokane Neon Museum Artist Chris Bovey spent years rescuing and personally restoring the buzzing vintage signs that once lit up S… Spokane (Emerson-Garfield / North Monroe)
Bird Aviation Museum & Invention Center Founded by Dr. Forrest Bird, a lifelong aviator who soloed a plane at 14 and went on to invent the first mass… Hayden, Idaho
Idaho Wildlife Museum A private foundation's collection houses one of the largest assemblies of bronze wildlife sculpture in the wo… Hayden, Idaho
Cataldo Mission (Old Mission State Park) The oldest standing building in Idaho, this 1850s mission church was raised by Coeur d'Alene Tribe members an… Cataldo, ID