Exhibits

Ivan Collins poses with some of his completed model vehicles. OHS Research Library, PF261-3_202312_001.

Current Exhibit

Models in Motion: The Ivan L. Collins Collection of Historic Vehicles in Miniature

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Watercolor painting depicting three birds: Golden Pileated Warbler, Pacific Yellow-throated Warbler, and California Yellow Warbler. R. Bruce Horsfall, 1921. OHS Museum, 2019-27.7.1.

Current Exhibit

Birds of the Pacific Coast: The Illustrations of R. Bruce Horsfall

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Uncle Toby’s Storyhouse, 1928. Courtesy of Camp Fire Columbia.

Current Exhibit

Camp Namanu, A 100 Year Journey Toward Inclusion

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
View of Broadway Street in downtown Portland in the 1950s. The Paramount Theater is on the left and the Broadway Theater is on the right. OHS Research Library, Org. Lot 1275, box 1, 11-1219.

Current Exhibit

Portland Past and Present

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
An unidentified woman and child kneel in a field while harvesting strawberries near Woodburn, Oregon. Photo by Rick Simon. OHS Research Library, Org. Lot 74, no. 0749.

Current Exhibit

Migrant Labor Families in the 1960s: Portraits from the Valley Migrant League Photographs

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Proponents of Oregon’s 1953 Public Accommodations Act pose for posterity. OHS Research Library, OrHi 44402

Current Exhibit,Traveling Exhibit

Oregon Voices Traveling Exhibit

Woodburn Museum
455 N Front Street
Woodburn, Oregon 97071

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Experience Oregon opening banner

Permanent Exhibit

Experience Oregon

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Family-friendly
  • Free for Members
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Children at Swan Island refugee center set up by the Red Cross after the Vanport Flood, 1948. OrHi 90661. Photographs: Portland - NE Neighborhoods - Vanport [graphic]; Photo file #1689-A; 1948/05

Permanent Exhibit

History Hub

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
Aerial view, downtown Portland, Willamette River. Color by GL Nichols. OHS Research Library, bb015662.

Upcoming Exhibit

Rivers, Roses, and Rip City: The Remarkable History of Portland

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Family-friendly
  • Free for Members
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Lilla Leach with her burros, Pansy and Violet. OHS Research Library, Org. Lot 370, box 5, folder 19.

Upcoming Exhibit

Oregon’s Sleepy Hollow: The Leach Legacy

Oregon Historical Society
1200 SW Park Ave
Portland, Oregon 97205

  • Free for Members
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
“Vista House and Columbia River Gorge from Women’s Forum State Scenic Viewpoint.” Photograph by Peter Marbach.

Upcoming Exhibit,Traveling Exhibit

A Century of Wonder: 100 Years of Oregon State Parks

Santiam Heritage Foundation
425 N. First Ave
The Brown House Event Center
Stayton, Oregon 97383

  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Digging in the sand at Clatsop Beach. OHS Research Library, OrHi_94797

Upcoming Exhibit,Traveling Exhibit

Places by the Sea

Garibaldi Maritime Museum
112 Garibaldi Ave
Garibaldi, Oregon 97118

  • Family-friendly
Photo of Margaret Howe with Oregon shield during woman suffrage march in Washington, D.C., March 1913, Library of Congress, LC-B2- 2668-6 [P&P], Bain News Service Photograph collection

Online Exhibit

Nevertheless, They Persisted: Women’s Voting Rights and the 19th Amendment

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
NAACP parade for Medgar Evers in Portland, 1963. OHS Research Library, 38665

Online Exhibit

Racing to Change—Oregon’s Civil Rights Years

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Portland Sunset 2, 2020. Copyright James Foley.

Online Exhibit

The View From Here

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
windows on america online exhibit

Online Exhibit

Windows on America

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
Org Lot 1335 folder 1

Online Exhibit

“A Symbol of Home”: The Environmental and Political Legacy of Tom McCall in Oregon

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Caterpillar-drawn flax puller, head on, 1930s, OHS Research Library, Portland Public School Collection

Online Exhibit

Flaxen: From Flax to Linen in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Scans from the KOIN and the KPTV 16mm News Film Collections

Online Exhibit

Frames Per Second: Selections from the OHS 16mm News Film Collection, 1969-1981

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Broadway at night during Portland Rose Festival, ca. 1916. OHS Research Library, Portland General Electric Photograph Collection; Org. Lot 151; Box 8; PGE 138-50

Online Exhibit

Harnessing the Power of Photography: Selections from the OHS Portland General Electric Collections, 1895-1979

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Main Dinning Room, Hotel Portland, Portland, ORE.

Online Exhibit

Lost Portland

  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Oregon Journal Photograph Collection, Org. Lot 1368, 371N2965

Online Exhibit

Mirror on the Modern Woman: Selected Images from the Oregon Journal, 1927–1932

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Portland, June, 1858. 5488

Online Exhibit

Portland: A Lot of People Have Lived Here

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Valley of the Willamette River 1845 HJ Warre OrHi 49030

Online Exhibit

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Fred Meyer poses for an advertisement photo checking out groceries,  circa 1950. Ackroyd-Marks Studio Coll 199 b7.f2 ba026202

Online Exhibit

The Fred Meyer Story

  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Bobby Robinson, 1928, Oregana 1929, UO Special Collections and University Archives, Eugene, Oregon

Traveling Exhibit

Black Athletes Disrupting White Supremacy in Oregon

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
Special Olympics Oregon athletes practice for an 880-yard run, 1980. OHS Research Library, 023701.

Traveling Exhibit

Brave in the Attempt: Celebrating 50 years of Special Olympics Oregon

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Vineyard Mehama ca1900 Ray L Stout #434

Traveling Exhibit

Clink! A Taste of Oregon Wine

  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Wetland scene of former Buchanan Family Farm, which sits at the confluence of Beaver and Muddy Creeks. OHS Museum, 2019-35.79.1.

Traveling Exhibit

Frances Stilwell: Oregon’s Botanical Landscape

  • Family-friendly
  • Teachers
  • Researchers
Governor Tom McCall and Secretary of State Clay Myers empty a bag of aluminum cans during the Bottle Bill campaign, 1971. OHS Research Library, Org Lot 353, box 2, folder 4.

Traveling Exhibit

Many Happy Returns: 50 Years of the Oregon Bottle Bill

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Klamath man overlooks giiwas (Crater Lake) Curtis Collection Photo provided by Taylor R. David, Klamath Tribes News Dept.

Traveling Exhibit

Oregon Is Indian Country

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
The Three Sisters, John Yeon Lantern Slide Collection

Traveling Exhibit

Oregon: 150 Years of Statehood; 150 Million Years in the Making

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
Yaquina Bay Bridge undated bb007717

Traveling Exhibit

Oregon's Landmark Legislation

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly
Governor Mark Hatfield and Antoinette Hatfield celebrate at his campaign headquarters after winning the governorship, November 7. 1962. OHS Research Library, bb011059.

Traveling Exhibit

The Call of Public Service: The Life and Legacy of Mark O. Hatfield

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
Aerial view of Vanport before the flood. OHS Research Library, OrHi 56002

Traveling Exhibit

Vanport Traveling Exhibit

  • Family-friendly
  • Researchers
  • Teachers
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Traveling Exhibit

What If Heroes Were Not Welcome Home?

  • Teachers
  • Family-friendly