Northwest Room Scavenger Hunt

Northwest Room Scavenger Hunt

Remember scavenger hunts? Yes, that time-honored staple of elementary school assignments, and the establishing premise of 1936’s My Man Godfrey, opens a new window. This summer, the good ol’ scavenger hunt returns as part of Tacoma Library’s Summer Reading activities.

Complete at least ten of the Northwest Room Scavenger Hunt activities through the Beanstack website, opens a new window or by downloading the Beanstack app, opens a new window to earn badges for searching out the answers to our questions in the Northwest Room’s online photographic, audio, and written resources, opens a new window about our city and region. The challenge will be available through Beanstack June 5 to August, 14, 2021. You can also download and print a copy of the questions (Page 1, opens a new window | Page 2, opens a new window).

Is your house haunted, opens a new window? Is “Hope Stronger, opens a new window” in Tacoma? What’s this about a UFO in 1896, opens a new window? The answers to these questions, and many more, are waiting for you in the digital collections of Tacoma Public Library’s Northwest Room, opens a new window. Ready. Set. Search!