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This list of museums in Portland, Oregon 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 Oregon Historical Society Museum is a history museum housed at the Oregon Historical Society in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The museum was created in 1898 and receives about 44,000 visitors annually. It houses the Portland Penny that decided the city’s name. [1]
1850 period house operated by the Wasco County Historical Society Santiam Historical Society Museum Stayton: Marion Willamette Valley History - Local [65] Sandy Historical Museum: Sandy: Clackamas Portland Metro History - Local Website; run by the Sandy Historical Society Schmidt House Museum: Grants Pass: Josephine: Southern: Historic house
Through appeals to the public and discussions with provincial and federal cabinet ministers, she raised $5,000 for a historical museum at Niagara, of which she became the president and curator. [3] [6] The museum opened in 1907. [7] Carnochan wrote, entirely or in part, at least 14 of the Niagara Historical Society's publications. [3]
The Society was organized on December 17, 1898, in Portland at the Portland Library Building. [1] Its mission, as expressed in the first volume of its Oregon Historical Quarterly, was to "bring together in the most complete measure possible the data for the history of the commonwealth, and to stimulate the widest and highest use of them."
Portland (1947 tugboat) Portland Art Museum; Portland Children's Museum; Portland Chinatown Museum; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art; Portland Museum of Modern Art; Portland Police Museum; Portland Puppet Museum
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This 31-foot (9.4 m) sculpture of folkloric logger Paul Bunyan in Portland's Kenton neighborhood was built in 1959 to commemorate the centennial of Oregon's statehood during the Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair. Its steel skeleton and detailed, painted-plaster sheathing were crafted by local companies and tradesmen, and it was ...