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Columbia County Museum, St. Helens, As of March 2007, closed due to litigation [92] Horner Museum, at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Oregon, closed 1995 [93] Jacksonville Museum, closed in 2009 [94] Sage Museum, Shaniko [95] Pacific Northwest Museum of Natural History, Ashland [96] [97] Working Wonders Children's Museum, Bend, closed in 2009 [98]
In 2018 projects were displayed at the Museum of Northwest Art [15] and at the Creative Climate Awards in New York City. [5] [16] In May 2019 a project consisting of 27 tempestries representing 100 years on Orcas Island in 4-year increments was displayed at the Pacific Northwest Quilt and Fiberarts Museum. [17]
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The Museum of Northwest Art showcases a permanent collection of northwest artists and revolving shows throughout the year. The town is also home to the Skagit Historical Museum, [15] with perhaps the best view in town, and the Quilt Museum, [16] located in one of the oldest homes in town, the Gaches Mansion.
The traveling exhibit of Native American quilts from 1920 to 1996 was a temporary exhibit at the museum in July 2000. The quilts were displayed in settings such as on beds to showcase the stories depicted on each quilt. The exhibit was called "To Honor and Comfort: Native Quilting Traditions" and featured 45 North American and Hawaiian quilts. [8]
Experience Music Project. This list of museums in Washington state encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The International Quilt Museum [3] was founded in 1997 when native Nebraskans Ardis and Robert James donated their collection of nearly 950 quilts to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Their contribution became the centerpiece of what is now the largest publicly held quilt collection in the world.
Currently, Lamb's Cootie Quilt is in the collection of the Renwick Gallery (a branch of the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Michael the Archangel Bids You Aloha is in the collection of the Portland Art Museum, and Our Lady of Perpetual Garage Sales is in the collection of the Pacific Northwest College of Art's Center for Contemporary Art and ...