The Museum of Culture and Environment will be closed for the summer after June 15, 2012. The Museum will re-open on September 19, 2012 with a new exhibit, Particles on the Wall, a traveling exhibit that brings together art, poetry, and science in an exploration of the Hanford nuclear site.

During the closure, visitors will still be able to view the mammoth bones in the Window on Cental located in the Dean Hall lobby, as well as the Central Goes to War exhibit on the fourth floor of Barge Hall.