Oregon History Museum
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 222-1741
Explore Oregon’s history at the Oregon History Museum at the Oregon Historical Society, located on the South Park Blocks in downtown Portland. The museum is home to many fascinating exhibits, including two permanent Oregon history exhibits. Oregon My Oregon is an award-winning exhibit that tells Oregon’s story from the region’s earliest inhabitants, to the arrival of Europeans, through the Oregon Trail, and onward to early settlements and industries. Visitors can view ancient artifacts including a pair of 9,000 year old sagebrush sandals that predate the pyramids of Egypt, and the real furniture and china carried on Captain Gray’s ship, the Columbia Rediviva. The museum’s newest exhibit, Oregon Voices (opening June 2012), combines the technology of today with stories from the past. This interactive exhibit gives visitors a chance to explore the issues and events that shaped Oregon from 1950 forward. Throughout the exhibit, interactive touch screens allow visitors to design their own museum experience, exploring films, photographs, recordings, and digital documents from the Society’s vast collections.
The Oregon Historical Society also hosts a world-class research library, which includes 2.5 million photographs, 25,000 maps, 35,000 books, a film archive of 15,000 titles, and more than 2,000 oral histories that tell Oregon's rich history.
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Business Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 10 AM - 5 PM
Sunday, Noon - 5 PM
June 18 - August 27, 2012: Open Monday, 10 AM - 5 PM
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Oregon My Oregon is an award-winning exhibit
that tells Oregon’s story from the region’s earliest
inhabitants, to the arrival of Europeans, through
the Oregon Trail, and onward to early settlements
and industries.
Visitors can view ancient artifacts including a pair
of 9,000 year old sagebrush sandals that predate
the pyramids of Egypt, and the real furniture and
china carried on Captain Gray’s ship, the Columbia
Rediviva. Visitors can also explore Native American
collections and re-creations of a Hudson’s Bay
Company ship hull, a 19th century explorer’s tent,
and a store stocked with 1940s-era merchandise
from the Hood River Yasui Brothers Mercantile.
With Oregon Voices, the Oregon Historical Society
combines the technology of today with stories from
the past. This interactive exhibit gives visitors a
chance to explore the issues and events that shaped
Oregon from 1950 forward.
Throughout the exhibit, interactive touch screens
allow visitors to design their own museum
experience, exploring fi lms, photographs,
recordings, and digital documents from the Society’s
vast collections. Guests are encouraged to add their
voice by answering questions at polling stations and
leaving comments about their own personal history
and opinions.
Oregon Historical Society