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4015 SW Canyon Rd
Portland, OR 97221

(503) 223-6500

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Museum Near Portland Children's Museum

Pittock Mansion
Distance: 1.2 mi Competitive Analysis
3229 NW Pittock Dr
Portland, OR 97210

(503) 823-3623

Pittock Mansion is full of rich history and remarkable stories of one of Portland’s first and most influential families. Nestled high in the West Hills, Pittock Mansion overlooks the city’s skyline from 1,000 feet up –the perfect place to learn how Portland became what it is today.

World Forestry Center
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
4033 SW Canyon Rd
Portland, OR 97221

The World Forestry Center is a nonprofit educational institution in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon. Located near the Oregon Zoo in Washington Park, the organization was established in 1964 as the Western Forestry Center, with the actual building opening in 1971.HistoryThe World Forestry Center has its roots in the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair for which an enormous log cabin was built of huge native trees and advertised as the world's largest. Public interest in the Forestry Building, which was turned over to the State of Oregon, lasted long after the exposition ended, right up until it was destroyed by fire on August 17, 1964.The day after the fire, a group of civic and industry leaders conceived The Western Forestry Center. A new, more fire-resistant forestry building designed by Oregon architect John Storrs was built in Washington Park. It opened to the public on June 5, 1971. The name was changed to "World Forestry Center" in 1986 to reflect the center's revised focus on forestry on a global scale.On June 30, 2005, after a $7 million, 6-month renovation, the 20000sqft museum reopened with new interactive exhibits about the sustainability of forests and trees of the Pacific Northwest and the world.ProgramsThe World Forestry Center's mission is to "educate and inform people about the world's forests and trees, and their importance to all life, in order to promote a balanced and sustainable future."

Oregon Zoo - Portland
Distance: 0.1 mi Competitive Analysis
4001 sw canyon rd
Portland, OR 97221

(503) 226-1561

Oregon Holocaust Memorial
Distance: 1.2 mi Competitive Analysis
SW Washington Way & Wright Ave.
Portland, OR 97205

(503) 823-7529

The Oregon Holocaust Memorial is an outdoor memorial dedicated to victims of the Holocaust. Located in Portland, Oregon's Washington Park, the memorial was dedicated on August 29, 2004. Owned by the American Jewish Committee and constructed by Atlas Landscape Architecture and the Walsh Construction Company, the idea for a memorial was proposed in 1994 by Alice Kern and a local group of Holocaust survivors that met through the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center. According to Fodor's, the memorial is open daily from dawn to dusk and admission is free of charge.DesignThe memorial features a stone bench with wrought iron gating around a cobblestone circle. Scattered bronzes of common objects such as shoes, glasses, and a suitcase represent items left behind by those persecuted during the Holocaust. A cobblestone walkway, with granite bars simulating railroad tracks, leads to a wall containing a history of the Holocaust as well as quotes from survivors. The memorial also contains a "soil vault panel", which covers soil and ash from six extermination camps of the Holocaust (Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Treblinka, and Sobibor) brought back by local residents. Engraved on the back of the wall are the names of people who died in the camps, as well as the names of their surviving relatives in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Author and designer John Laursen created the lettering for the memorial. Other design team members included artists Tad Savinar and Paul Sutinen, landscape architects John Warner, Marianne Zarkin and Marlene Salon, and historian Marshall Lee.

Discovery Museum World Forestry Center
Distance: 0.2 mi Competitive Analysis
4033 SW Canyon Rd
Portland, OR 97221

(503) 228-1367