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Attractions / Museums

Portland Art Museum

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

Updated Jan. 24, 2023 3 min read Downtown

Know Before You Go

Museum tickets can be purchased in advance online or in person.

There are several current exhibits in addition to the museum’s permanent collection; please check the Portland Art Museum website for up-to-date information.

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 art collection.

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. SW Park Avenue bounds the Museum to the east, 10th Avenue to the west, Jefferson Street to the south, and Main Street to the north.

The Tri-Met bus and Portland Streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.

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 Sundays 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.

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.

Black Radio Station at Home in Portland Art Museum

DJ Ambush created Portland’s only Black-led radio station. Now housed in the Portland Art Museum, The Numberz FM provides artistic space and creates media for Portland’s Black communities.

Listen Up

On the lower level sits the Whitsell Auditorium, a part of the Museum’s history for the past fifty years. Formally Northwest Film Center, now PAM CUT (Center for an Untold Tomorrow), the theater screens art films and has programming that supports local and international storytelling in all immersive formats.

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. 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, partly 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.

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

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.

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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.
Credit: Jamie Francis
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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.

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. Still, 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).

Arts, Attractions, Museums

Explore the Arts

Within the Portland Art Museum and beyond, to local institues supporting living artist.

A room filled with artwork made by native artists.

Center for Native American Art

The Portland Art Museum's Center for Contemporary Native Art showcases the work of modern-day Native American artists. The innovative gallery hosts annual exhibitions along with a range of related talks and activities co-created by the artists.

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Oregon Center for Contemporary Art

In North Portland find visual art installations and performance art to collaborations with bands, chefs and mixologists, with international curators and partnerships with Oregon art makers, Oregon Contemporary is the cutting edge of visual arts.

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Time-Based Art (TBA) Festival

Portland’s Time-Based Art Festival (TBA) returns every September with 10 days of boundary-pushing performances, visual art and projects that defy categorization.

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Portland Tattoo Expo
Oct. 6–8, 2023

Portland Tattoo Expo

Portland Expo Center $17- $40

Join up for three fun-filled days with tattoos, live performances, contests and more. Get tattooed by amazing artists from around the world. Come to the Portland Expo Center to observe these artists at work (and potentially go home with your own tattoo). Tickets available at the door

Art & Design
Conventions
Art Focus Night: Illustrators Work & Chat
Ongoing

Art Focus Night: Illustrators Work & Chat

Pioneer Place Free

Professional illustrators, graphic designers, digital painters and artists are invited to come and have free snacks, meet other creators and have time to work together. Bring a project to work on. Hosted by artist Shelly Swann @fairywulf and Gallery Go Go @gallerygogo

Art & Design
Plein Air & Alla Prima Showcase
Oct. 6–26, 2023

Plein Air & Alla Prima Showcase

Oregon Society of Artists Free

Plein Air painting and Alla Prima painting capture the essence of a scene, the attitude of a landscape, or the character of a moment. Most often completed in a single sitting, these works feature lively and impressionistic views, bold gestures, and impromptu mark-making. For the Plein Air and Alla Prima Showcase, we’re looking for works…

Art & Design
S P A C E: Jupiter - the drag show
Oct. 6–7, 2023

S P A C E: Jupiter – the drag show

Blackwater Bar $11 – $33

The biggest beauty of all the planets – the jovial benefic of good luck and expansion, the planet that wants you to succeed, be a sovereign among sovereigns, and become your best self… That’s right… It’s time to go to JUPITER Hosted by none other than Portland legend Isaiah Esquire Through thirteen shows across twenty-four…

Art & Design
LGBTQ+
Nightlife
Performing Arts
Natura Eternal Jewelry Designer Showcase
Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023

Natura Eternal Jewelry Designer Showcase

Paxton Gate – Nob Hill Free

Paxton Gate is hosting visiting artists from around the country for this in-store event. Oregon native Katie Evans of Hart Variations, Emily Hirsch of Talon Jewelry, visiting from California and Julie Cron of Stray Jewelry, visiting from Montana, will share their available jewelry creations. Converse with the artists as you shop a variety of artisan-made…

Art & Design
Shopping
Leonard Baskin, the Great Birdman
Oct. 8, 2023–Jan. 21, 2024

Leonard Baskin, the Great Birdman

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education $5 – $10

Leonard Baskin’s Orthodox Jewish upbringing and deep knowledge of Jewish texts and history are evident throughout his oeuvre. His art, expressed in sculpture and painting, and the printing techniques of lithography, woodcut, etching, and engraving, carries multiple sources of inspiration, including monumental Egyptian and Mesopotamian sculpture, classical Greek mythology and literature, and portrayals of Native…

Art & Design
Cultural Communities
Exhibition
Oregon Origins Project III: Maa~‑xuslh‑ghalh‑ta Tututni Dené (A Year in Tututni Dené Seasons)
Oct. 13–Nov. 11, 2023

Oregon Origins Project III: Maa~‑xuslh‑ghalh‑ta Tututni Dené (A Year in Tututni Dené Seasons)

Reed College Free

Oregon Origins Project presents a journey through the seasonal traditions of the southwest Oregon coast indigenous peoples. Yashuwe’ Tututni Dené culture bearer and artist Hii-ne Jake DePoe's artwork will be displayed⁣ at the Reed College Vollum College Center. On the evening of Saturday, October 14, at the Reed College Performing Arts Buidng, Hii-ne Jake DePoe…

Art & Design
Cultural Communities
Exhibition
Karl Leclair and Miroslav Lovric
Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023

Karl Leclair and Miroslav Lovric

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts Free

Sharing personal histories and what led them to a life in the arts, artists Karl LeClair and Miroslav Lovric take guests on a visual tour. Incorporating imagery from conscious and subconscious moments, the artists share stories and developments in making. Discussing printmaking techniques and brushwork gestures both demonstrate how history and the mind led to…

Art & Design
Readings & Talks
Late Nite Foglight x Dame
Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023

Late Nite Foglight x Dame

Foglight Farms $275

Foglight Farms will host Patrick McKee of Dame on Sunday, October 15, for an immersive collaboration of food, wine, and performance on their idyllic property in Hillsboro, Oregon. Using the model of a late-night TV show, this edition of Late Nite Foglight will take as its jumping-off point the fact that farmers, chefs and artists…

Art & Design
Food & Drink
Performing Arts

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