Oregon History Museum Upcoming Exhibits

Oregon Yours Mine Ours, an exhibit about contemporary Oregon coming soon!

The Photography of Marian Wood Kolisch

Opening April 12, 2012

The granddaughter of 20th-century Oregon figure C.E.S. Wood, Marian Wood Kolisch came to love photography later in life after taking a workshop with Ansel Adams. She photographed extraordinary Oregonians, including film director Gus Van Sant, former mayor Bud Clark, architect Pietro Belluschi, and photographer Ansel Adams, which will be displayed in this 2012 exhibit.

Braceros
February 18 - April 1, 2012

Bittersweet Harvest, a bilingual exhibition, explores the bracero program, the largest guest worker program in American history. Between 1942 and 1964, millions of Mexican nationals came to the U.S. on short-term labor contracts, which offered them much-needed work and economic opportunity. Their dramatic story reveals an important but overlooked chapter in our nation’s history.

The Mightiest Wind: The 1962 Columbus Day Storm
Opening October 12, 2012

In 2012, the Oregon Historical Society will open an exhibit commemorating this notorious Columbus Day Storm that hit Oregon over 49 years ago. October 12, 2012 will mark the 50th anniversary of The Storm, which is regarded as the most powerful weather event in modern Oregon history. The Oregon Historical Society will be displaying photographs and artifacts from its collections to tell the story of an event that changed the lives of many Oregonians. However, to tell the complete story, OHS needs the help of all Oregonians who remember The Storm. OHS is looking for submissions of photographs, film footage, diary entries, artifacts, or personal memories of the Columbus Day Storm 50 years ago. In addition to images and stories, we are very interested in finding artifacts for the exhibit. This could be a household item that survived the storm, something that was found in the wreckage, a souvenir, or memento.

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Upcoming Exhibits

Braceros

Columbus Day Storm