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It began at the end of the 19th century with a small museum located at Portland City Hall in downtown Portland. [3] In 1913, the historical society and the museum moved from city hall to the Tourny Building, at 2nd and Taylor streets. [4] In 1917, they moved again, to the then-new Public Auditorium (later Civic Auditorium, then Keller ...
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.
Operated by the Polk County Historical Society, farmstead of 1861, period furnishings of 1860–1920; occupied by the pioneer Harrison Brunk family [10] Burrows House Newport: Lincoln Coast History - Local website, operated by the Lincoln County Historical Society, Victorian period house with exhibits of local history Bush Barn Art Center ...
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
The Washington County Historical Society was organized during a meeting in this building, the original site of the Washington County Free Library, at 21 Summit Ave. in Hagerstown.
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."
The museum's PCC Rock Creek campus location, its main location from 1983–2012 and again since fall 2017. In 1982, a new museum was built at the Portland Community College (PCC) campus at Rock Creek, and it opened in January 1983. [5] Then in September 1987 the Washington County Historical Society took over operations at the museum. [5]
Oregon History, sometimes called the Oregon Historical Society mural, [1] is a pair of eight-story-tall 1989–1990 trompe-l'œil murals by Richard Haas, installed outside the Oregon Historical Society, on two sides of the Sovereign Hotel building in Portland, Oregon, in the United States.