What are the opening hours?

Tuesday 10am - 5pm Wednesday 10am - 5pm Thursday 10am - 5pm Friday 10am - 5pm Saturday 10am - 5pm Sunday 10am - 5pm

Portland Art Museum

Name: Portland Art Museum
Address: 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR, 97205, US
Telephone: +15032262811

Home
United States
Portland, OR
Portland Art Museum

Call Directions Website Contact the museum

Connecting communities through art since 1892. Open: Tue–Sun, 10 am–5 pm (Closed Mon)
Free for Members, Youth 17 & under, and on Free First Thursday

10/22/2026

✨ Sunday, October 25 is Miller Family Community Free Day!

Discover the schedule and reserve your free ticket at the link → https://bit.ly/4z01IFX

10/21/2026

Happy birthday Lucinda Parker, who made “Feeding Frenzy” and “Cadenza” about two years apart. Parker described the shared movement of her whole arm as "making a dance in front of the painting.”

“Feeding Frenzy” shows the vigor and strength of a salmon swimming upriver while “Cadenza” expresses the nearing conclusion of a musical movement of a solo passage.

📍 See them on view in “Nine Women Artists”

—
Lucinda Parker (American, born 1942), “Cadenza,” 1991. Acrylic on canvas. Gift from Gary Lewis Moe in memory of Kevin Michael McGee, 2015.92.73; “Feeding Frenzy,” 1989. Acrylic on canvas. Gift of Don Frisbee, 2008.56

10/20/2026

This week, PAM CUT @ The Whitsell presents

Sat, Oct 24, 2 p.m. | ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968) - A young woman suspects her neighbors have sinister plans for her pregnancy.

Sun, Oct 25, 2 p.m. | EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960) 4K Restoration - A surgeon causes a car accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

📍 Screenings are in the Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium

Get tickets → https://bit.ly/4z0urKd

10/19/2026

Planning a wedding, gala, corporate gathering, or memorable celebration? Discover what’s possible when you host your event at PAM Venues! PAM Venues invites you to an immersive showcase of our historic event spaces and vendors. Admission is free, but registration is required.

PAM Venues Events Showcase
Wed, Oct 21, 3–7 p.m.
1119 SW Park Ave

Register for free → https://bit.ly/4yYbzMp

10/17/2026

Tannaz Farsi's “Second Skin” is an assemblage of found objects: a security light, a US flag-embroidered shirt, and bits of cotton. The shirt has been blasted, sanded, dragged, and cut, offering a moment of fragility while raising questions of patriotism, nationalism, and labor. Farsi states: “The American flag is an object, an image, and an idea signifying a shared history that tethers the bodies of citizens to the edges of this land. Who does this belong to?”

📍 On view in “To Gather Your Leaving: Themes of Diasporic Experiences in the Northwest” (Gallery 403, 404)

—
Tannaz Farsi (Iranian, active United States, born 1974), “Second Skin,” 2020. Shirt, steel, security light, cotton remainder from blasting, sanding, dragging, and cutting; 103 × 13 × 20 in. Museum Purchase: Northwest Art Purchase Fund, 2021.4.1a-e

10/15/2026

🍂👀 Leaf-peeping season has begun at PAM

10/14/2026

Lillian Pitt, whose birthday is today, is primarily known for her sculpture and mixed media work, which draws upon 12,000 years of iconography and tradition of the Columbia River Plateau. Tsagaglalal/She Who Watches was a powerful female chief who came to symbolize protection. This sculpture references the Columbia River petroglyph and pictograph in Columbia Hills Historical State Park, affirming and celebrating Indigenous presence in the region.

—
Lillian Pitt (American, Wasco, Yakama, and Warm Springs, born 1944), “She Who Watches,” 2009. New Zealand lead crystal and copper; 12 × 6 × 4 3/4 in. Museum Purchase: Funds provided by the Native American Art Council, 2015.165.1a,b © Lillian L. Pitt

10/13/2026

This weekend, PAM CUT @ The Whitsell presents a David Lynch film series with Fresh Cut Flowers. “Night Blooming Jasmine” celebrates the cinematic intersection of nature, beauty, mystery, and the surreal – Lynch’s distinctive visual language and ability to find the strange within the everyday. Along with the screenings, Fresh Cut Flowers will release a small collection of “Night Blooming Jasmine” products.

Sat, Oct 17, 2 p.m. | ERASERHEAD (1977)
Sat, Oct 17, 5 p.m. | BLUE VELVET (1986) in 35MM with w**e by Post Familiar and music
Sun, Oct 18, 2 p.m. | LOST HIGHWAY (1997)

📍 Screenings are in the Portland Art Museum’s Whitsell Auditorium

Tickets → https://bit.ly/4z0urKd

10/12/2026

Within this red space is a sound installation of Christian Thompson singing in Bidjara, his endangered Ancestral language. At risk of being lost, as many Indigenous languages around the world have been, Bidjara has been threatened by the effects of colonization.

Thompson repeats the word “Burdi” (fire), showing that speaking even a single word in Bidjara is a defiant and hopeful act of cultural preservation. The synth-heavy instrumentation, developed with collaborator & SO, channels the fire within – the inner strength and resilience necessary for survival and renewal.

📍 Visit it in “The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art”

—
Christian Thompson Artist (Bidjara, born 1978) & SO, collaborator, “Burdi Burdi (Fire Fire),” 2021. Naarm (Melbourne), Victoria. Sound installation. Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2021

Installation view, The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art at Portland Art Museum, Oregon, United States, 2026. Photo: Single File Studio, courtesy of the Portland Art Museum. Works © Studio Dr Christian Thompson AO, Melbourne

The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art is organized by the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Art, Washington in association with the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the Peabody Essex Museum.

10/11/2026

Hold still. Your screen was looking a little smudged. 🧼

📍 See this and more on view in ”An Honest Day’s Work: Photographs of Labor” (Gallery 217)

—
Alfred A. Monner (American, 1909–1998), “Window Washer,” ca. 1955. Gelatin silver print; 13 7/16 × 10 1/2 in. Gift of the Artist, 94.36.13 © Al Monner

Address

1219 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205

Opening Hours

Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+15032262811

Website

http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Portland Art Museum posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Museum

Send a message to Portland Art Museum:

Want your museum to be the top-listed museum in Portland?