The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals boasts the largest opal-filled thunderegg in the world, crystallized gold bigger than your hand, dinosaur eggs and fossils, an extensive meteorite collection, and hundreds of other attractions. It has become nationally...

An extension of the art exhibit program is the Pacific University Permanent Art Collection which contains over two hundred works spanning two centuries. It includes drawings, prints, ceramic, paintings, sculpture, photography, stained glass, and metal-smithing. A...

Pacific University Museum is located in the heart of the Pacific University campus at Forest Grove, Oregon. The museum is dedicated to the history and cultural influence of this pioneering educational institution. The exhibits interpret important people--trustees,...

We are here to tell the full story of Washington County, as a leader in Oregon’s arts, history and culture. As a cultural leader of Washington County, we innovate to better meet the needs of our county and create an understanding of our mutual past and shared...

In 1852 Wilson McClendon Tigard, his wife Mary Ann and their young son, John, traveled across the plains from Arkansas on the Oregon Trail. They settled on a Donation Land Claim of 320 acres. The area in which they settled was called East Butte, then later...

Portland Children's Museum was founded by visionary Dorothea Lensch in 1946 as part of Portland Parks and Recreation. The Museum is now the sixth oldest children’s museum in the country, and each year the Museum welcomes more than 280,000 children from birth to...

Our 20,000 square foot museum is located in Portland's beautiful Washington Park. Built in dramatic Cascadian style architecture, you'll marvel at the intricate hand carvings and grand entry outside, and delight in hands-on, one-of-a-kind exhibits inside.

The Pittock Mansion was home to Portland pioneers Henry and Georgiana Pittock from 1914 to 1919. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, their lives and work paralleled the growth of Portland from a small Northwest town site to a thriving city with a quarter...

The Oregon Zoo, formerly the Washington Park Zoo, is a zoo in Portland, the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. The zoo is inside Portland's Washington Park, and includes a narrow-gauge railway that connects to the International Rose Test Garden inside the...

The 187-acre (0.76 km2) (76 ha) arboretum hosts just under ten thousand individual trees and shrubs of more than eleven hundred species from all over the world. Most have labels identifying common and scientific names and region of origin. The arboretum has twelve...