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Portland Art Museum

Major exhibitions complement the museum’s strong Native American and Northwest collections.

Updated Apr. 1, 2022 3 min read Downtown

Know Before You Go

The museum is open with tickets available online or in-person. Current exhibits include Mesh, featuring artists whose work touches on current social issues including the ongoing fight against racial injustice and conflicts over Indigenous land rights.

A highly anticipated exhibit featuring the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera is open now through June 5, 2022. A special ticket is required for this exhibit. For more information, please visit the Portland Art Museum website.

The Portland Art Museum is the largest art museum in Oregon and one of the oldest in the country. Located in two historic buildings on Portland’s South Park Blocks, the museum is central to the city’s cultural district and houses a large and wide-ranging collection of art.

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Portland Art Museum Campus and History

First organized in 1892, the museum’s first exhibition was a set of magnificent plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture, now displayed in the upper hall of the city’s library. In 1932, the museum moved into the primary building, designed by Pietro Belluschi: a gracious contemporary update of the Georgian style, sleek-lined and advanced in its ideas. The museum’s renovation of the Masonic temple to its immediate north added more exhibition and office space to the campus in 2005.

Belluschi’s original design was ahead of its time. It was airy and admitted natural light into the museum’s galleries, especially the court beyond the entryway, and the visitor today experiences that grand space as a sort of surprise, given the museum’s relative scale. More wings were added, first to house the Pacific Northwest College of Art then known as the Museum Art School and ultimately separated into its own institution) and then a warren of smaller galleries. The old Masonic temple has become the Jubitz Center of Modern and Contemporary Art, though its old, ornate meeting rooms have been retained.

Northwest art is a primary attraction, cataloging the developments in Western art traditions in Oregon and Washington since the 19th century.

Portland Art Museum Collections

The museum has strong collections of prints and drawings, photography, Asian art, Native American (especially Pacific Coast) art, and Northwest art, and its European and American collections contain some extraordinary individual pieces, especially from the 19th and 20th centuries. The huge prints and drawings collection was built largely by the late Gordon Gilkey and include Old Masters printmakers (Dürer, Rembrandt) and the most recent examples of the art forms. And under chief curator Bruce Guenther, the museum’s modern art holdings have increased dramatically, in part because of the addition of the collection of the great modernist critic Clement Greenberg, which gives the museum a unique window into the development of advanced art in the mid-20th century.

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Explore the Portland Art Museum’s collection of Native American art in the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Center for Native American Art.
Credit: Catalina Gaitan
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Classical art on display at Portland Art Museum.
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Public art abounds in the city, like this steel sculpture outside of the Portland Art Museum.
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Basking in the grounds at Portland Art Museum, you'll come upon sculpture on display.
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Explore Oregon's history, local artwork and internationally renowned pieces from around the world at the Portland Art Museum.
Credit: Catalina Gaitan
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Explore new art at the Jubitz Center for Modern and Contemporary Arts at Portland Art Museum.

Native American Art

The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Center was sourced from two primary collectors: the Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast art, with its fabulous masks and whaling canoes, and the encyclopedic collection of Elizabeth Cole, which brings the exquisite work of  Southwest, Plains, Plateau and Woodlands tribes into focus. The collection is dedicated to all the Native American tribes of Oregon.

Northwest Art

Northwest art is a primary attraction, cataloging the developments in Western art traditions in Oregon and Washington since the 19th century. The museum’s curators have wisely spread this work throughout the galleries, placing the best work of Northwest abstractionists alongside their more celebrated New York peers, for example, but a gallery specifically dedicated to Northwest art supplies a good introduction to the fine artists who have worked here (C.S. Price, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Hilda and Carl Morris, Sally Haley and Michele Russo).

Tips for Visiting the Portland Art Museum

How do I get to the Portland Art Museum?

The Portland Art Museum is located on the historic South Park Blocks in downtown Portland at 1219 SW Park Avenue. The Museum is bounded by SW Park Avenue to the east, 10th Avenue to the west, Jefferson Street to the south, and Main Street to the north.

Is there parking available?

On-street metered parking (90-minute, 2-hour and 5-hour) is available at $2 per hour Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m.-7 p.m and Sundays from 1-7 p.m. On Sunday before 1 p.m. and on designated holidays, on-street parking is free. 

The closest private lot is Central City Parking at SW 10th and Main.

Do I need to reserve tickets in advance?

Portland Art Museum tickets are available online or in-person. For special events or exhibitions, it’s best to reserve in advance.

How much does the Portland Art Museum cost?

Admission costs are as follows:
  • $25 for adults (18 and over)
  • $22 for seniors 62+ and college students
  • Free for children 17 and under
 
Special exhibition and program fees may apply.

Details are subject to change; please check the Portland Art Museum website for current information.
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Saturday, June 4, 2022

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June 10–July 3, 2022

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June 11–Sept. 25, 2022

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Greater Portland Iris Society Show
Saturday, June 18, 2022

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International Multicultural Showcase
July 7–27, 2022

International Multicultural Showcase

Oregon Society Of Artists Free

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