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.
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):
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
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
