List of museums in Portland, Oregon

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.

Museums

Name	Neighborhood	Area	Type	Summary
3D Center of Art and Photography			Art	Antique 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	Northwest	Art	Photography gallery
Cooley Gallery	Eastmoreland	Southeast	Art	Website; part of Reed College
Gallery 114	Old Town Chinatown	Northwest	Art	website, non-profit artists' collective and gallery in all media
Hat Museum	Hosford-Abernethy	Southeast	Commodity - 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	Southeast	Toy	Website; includes 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
Museum of Contemporary Craft	Pearl District	Northwest	Art	Includes works in ceramic, glass, metal, fiber and wood, showing development of West Coast craft since the mid-20th century
Oregon Historical Society Museum	Downtown	Southwest	Multiple	State history, science, art
Oregon Jewish Museum	Northwest District	Northwest	Ethnic - Jewish	Jewish culture in Oregon, America and the world, art, history
Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center	Old Town Chinatown	Northwest	Ethnic - Japanese	Website; lives and contributions of Oregon's Nikkei community, located in Portland's old Japantown area
Oregon Maritime Museum	Downtown	Southwest	Maritime	Located 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-Abernethy	Southeast	Railroad	Vintage railroad equipment, including steam and diesel locomotives and passenger coaches
Oregon Sports Hall of Fame			Hall of fame - Sports	Closed temporarily, as of May 2008, according to its website
Pacific Northwest College of Art Galleries	Pearl District	Northwest	Art	Campus includes twelve public exhibition galleries, two professional galleries and ten spaces reserved for student and community showings
Ping Pong's Pint Size Puppet Museum	Southeast Uplift	Southeast	Puppet	website
Pittock Mansion	Hillside	Northwest	Historic house	22 room French Renaissance estate situated on 46 acres (190,000 m^2)
Portland Art Museum	Downtown	Southwest	Art	Includes 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		Northeast	Art	Website, on the Cascade Campus
Portland Community College North View Gallery		Far Southwest	Art	Website, on the Sylvania Campus
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art	Downtown	Southwest	Art	Contemporary performance and visual arts
Portland Police Museum	Downtown	Southwest	Police	Photographs, equipment, uniforms, and documents; run by the Portland Police Historical Society
Portland University Galleries	Downtown	Southwest	Art	Website, MK, Autzen & AB Lobby Galleries,
Stark's Vacuum Museum	Kerns	Northeast	Commodity - Vacuum cleaners	Collection 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	Southwest	Technology	website, historic Tektronix equipment
Wells Fargo History Museum	Downtown	Southwest	History	Wells 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.
World Forestry Center	Washington Park	Southwest	Industry - Forestry	Forest industry, importance and natural history of forests

Defunct museums

• American Advertising Museum, closed 2004
• The Faux Museum, closed January 2015^[1][2]
• Velveteria, closed January 2010

See also

• List of museums in Oregon

References

1. "The Faux Museum, absurd downtown Portland gallery, is closing in 2015". The Oregonian. December 4, 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2015.
2. "Official site". The Faux Museum. Retrieved 27 January 2015.

External links

• Oregon Museums Association