List of museums in Oregon facts for kids

This list of museums in 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. Lists of Oregon institutions which are not museums are noted in the "See also" section, below.

Main list

Museums and organizations encompassed by Antique Powerland Museums

Antique Powerland Museums, according to its website, "encompasses 14 additional museums and heritage organizations operating in partnership", which are not listed in the sortable table above (except as noted):

Oregon regions

The region designations used in the table above follow the Oregon Museums Association regions (the state tourism authority uses slightly different regions):

• Central:
  • All of Crook, Deschutes, Jefferson counties
  • Most of Wasco County except the northern part (such as the communities along Interstate 84)
• Coast:
  • All of Clatsop, Coos, Curry, Lincoln and Tillamook counties
  • Western parts of Douglas County, including Scottsburg (on Highway 38); and western parts of Lane County including Mapleton (on Highway 126
• Eastern:
  • All of Baker, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman County, Umatilla, Union, Wallowa, and Wheeler counties
• Mount Hood/The Gorge:
  • All of Hood River County
  • Parts of northern Wasco County, (including communities along Interstate 84), eastern parts of Multnomah and Clackamas counties, including areas east of U.S. Route 26 and communities along Interstate 84 east of Crown Point State Park, including Multnomah Falls and Bonneville.
• Portland Metro:
  • All of Columbia and Washington counties
  • Parts of Clackamas and Multnomah counties, including Sandy and Estacada and all areas west of them
• Southern:
  • All of Jackson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake counties
  • Most of Douglas County except Scottsburg and areas west of it
• Willamette Valley:
  • All of Benton, Linn, Marion, Polk, and Yamhill counties
  • Most of Lane County, except Mapleton and areas west of it

Alternate names and changed names

Museums are sometimes known by more than one name, and they sometimes change their names. Here are some known variations of the names of museums in the above list (which uses each museum's most widely known name):

• Gateway to Discovery — the name used by the North Coast Land Conservancy for the Gateway Coastal Natural History Center
• Coos County Historical Society Museum – Coos Historical and Maritime Museum (2004 name change)
• Coos-Curry Museum – later split into what now are the Coos Historical and Maritime Museum and Curry Historical Society Museum
• Deepwood Estate – see Historic Deepwood Estate
• Heritage Museum – see Clatsop County Historical Society Heritage Museum
• Historic Patrick Hughes House – see Patrick Hughes House
• Hughes Historic House – see Patrick Hughes House
• Jordan Valley Owyhee Heritage Council Museum – see I. O. N. Jordan Valley Heritage Museum
• Old College Hall
• Telephone Pioneers Museum – see Qwest Pioneer Telephone Museum
• Tillamook Naval Museum – see Tillamook Naval Air Station
• Wasco County Historical Museum – part of the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center
• Yamhill Museum — see Yamhill County Historical Society Museum

Defunct museums

• Columbia County Museum, St. Helens, As of March 2007, closed due to litigation
• Horner Museum, at Gill Coliseum in Corvallis, Oregon, closed 1995
• Jacksonville Museum, closed in 2009
• Sage Museum, Shaniko
• Pacific Northwest Museum of Natural History, Ashland
• Working Wonders Children's Museum, Bend, closed in 2009
• Jensen Arctic Museum, Monmouth, closed in 2013, collection moved to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History (MNCH) at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
• Pioneer Telephone Museum, Eugene, abruptly closed in 2016 for unknown reasons

See also

• List of museums in Portland, Oregon
• Nature Centers in Oregon
• Lists of Oregon-related topics