The Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology (CREHST) was a non-profit

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

and science center located in

Richland, Washington Richland () is a city in Benton County, Washington, United States. It is located in southeastern Washington at the confluence of the Yakima and the Columbia Rivers. As of the 2020 census, the city's population was 60,560. Along with the nearby c ...

, dedicated to telling the story of the Columbia Basin and surrounding region. Permanent exhibits include displays about the history of the

Hanford Site The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. The site has been known by many names, including SiteW a ...

and Richland, the

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, and others. The museum was founded in 1995 following the closing of the Hanford Science center, and it closed on January 31, 2014. The museum transitioned into the

Hanford Reach Interpretive Center The Reach Museum, also known as the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center, is a museum and visitor center for Hanford Reach National Monument located in Richland, Washington. The center tells a story of the cultural, natural, and scientific history of ...

which opened in July 2014. Many of the exhibits from the CREHST were moved over to the Hanford Reach Interpretive Center.

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