List of museums in Portland, Oregon

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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. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also included are non-profit and university art galleries.

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Museums

NameNeighborhoodAreaTypeSummary
3D Center of Art and Photography ArtAntique and contemporary 3D imagery, currently closed and seeking new location
Architectural Heritage Center Buckman Southeast Art - Architecture Website; changing exhibits about architecture and art
Blue Sky Gallery Pearl District NorthwestArtPhotography gallery
Cooley Gallery Eastmoreland SoutheastArt Website; part of Reed College
Gallery 114 Old Town Chinatown NorthwestArt website, non-profit artists' collective and gallery in all media
Hat Museum Hosford-Abernethy SoutheastCommodity - Hats Website; displays a selection of most characteristic styles of past eras; in the Ladd-Reingold House; open for private tours for costumers, fashion and history academics and for millinery students
Kidd's Toy Museum Buckman SoutheastToyIncludes mechanical banks; trains, planes and automobiles; character toys; police badges; railroad locks, lanterns and related items; early Oregon memorabilia; teddy bears and dolls; and holiday collectibles [1]
Movie Madness Video Sunnyside SoutheastMediaVideo rental shop and museum of film history with costumes, props and Hollywood memorabilia
Museum of Odd History University Park NorthFraternal HistoryHistory of Odd Fellows and their contributions to the development of North Portland Website
Oregon Historical Society Museum Downtown Southwest MultipleState history, science, art
Oregon Jewish Museum and Centre for Holocaust Education Northwest District NorthwestEthnic - Jewish Jewish culture in Oregon, America and the world, art, history
Japanese American Museum of Oregon Old Town Chinatown NorthwestEthnic - Japanese Website; lives and contributions of Oregon's Nikkei community, located in Portland's old Japantown area
Oregon Maritime Museum DowntownSouthwestMaritimeLocated on the steam sternwheeler Portland in Tom McCall Waterfront Park
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) Hosford-Abernethy Southeast Science Also includes the USS Blueback (SS-581) submarine and a planetarium
Oregon Rail Heritage Center Hosford-AbernethySoutheast Railroad Vintage railroad equipment, including steam and diesel locomotives and passenger coaches
Pacific Northwest College of Art Galleries Pearl DistrictNorthwestArtCampus includes twelve public exhibition galleries, two professional galleries and ten spaces reserved for student and community showings
Pittock Mansion Hillside Northwest Historic house 22 room French Renaissance estate situated on 46 acres (190,000 m2)
Portland Art Museum DowntownSouthwestArtIncludes centers for Native American, Northwest art, and modern and contemporary art, Asian art, an outdoor public sculpture garden, and the Northwest Film Center
Portland Children's Museum Washington Park Southwest Children's
Portland Community College Cascade Gallery Humboldt NortheastArt Website, on the Cascade Campus
Portland Community College North View Gallery Far Southwest SouthwestArt Website, on the Sylvania Campus
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art DowntownSouthwest Art Contemporary performance and visual arts
Portland Police Museum DowntownSouthwestPolicePhotographs, equipment, uniforms, and documents; run by the Portland Police Historical Society
Portland Puppet Museum Southeast Uplift SoutheastPuppet website
Portland State University School of Art & Design GalleriesDowntownSouthwestArt Website. MK, Autzen, AB Lobby and Broadway Galleries
Stark's Vacuum Museum Kerns NortheastCommodity - Vacuum cleanersCollection of 300 items includes the two-person-operated Busy-Bee (one person pumps, the other vacuums); operated by Stark's Vacuum Cleaner Sales & Service
VintageTek Hayhurst SouthwestTechnology website, historic Tektronix equipment
Wells Fargo History Museum DowntownSouthwestHistoryWells Fargo Company in Oregon history; includes a 19th-century stagecoach, an interactive telegraph, a life-size reproduction of a turn-of-the-20th-century bank, and a treasure box used to carry gold long distances. This museum has closed.
World Forestry Center Washington Park SouthwestIndustry - ForestryForest industry, importance and natural history of forests

Defunct museums

See also

References

  1. "Kidd's Toy Museum". Travel Portland . Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  2. "The Faux Museum, absurd downtown Portland gallery, is closing in 2015". The Oregonian. December 4, 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  3. "Official site". The Faux Museum. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  4. Baer, April. "Portland's Museum Of Contemporary Craft To Be Dissolved". www.opb.org. Retrieved January 30, 2020.