List of Museums in Oregon - Alternate Names and Changed Names

Alternate Names and Changed Names

Museums are sometimes known by more than one name, and they sometimes change their names. Here are some known variations of the names of museums in the above list (which uses each museum's most widely known name):

• Gateway to Discovery — the name used by the North Coast Land Conservancy for the Gateway Coastal Natural History Center
• Coos County Historical Society Museum – Coos Historical and Maritime Museum (2004 name change)
• Coos-Curry Museum – later split into what now are the Coos Historical and Maritime Museum and Curry Historical Society Museum
• Deepwood Estate – see Historic Deepwood Estate
• Fruit Heritage Museum – see Fruit Foundation Historical Society
• Heritage Museum – see Clatsop County Heritage Museum
• Historic Patrick Hughes House – see Patrick Hughes House
• Hood River County Historical Museum – see History Museum of Hood River County
• Hughes Historic House – see Patrick Hughes House
• Jordan Valley Owyhee Heritage Council Museum – see I. O. N. Jordan Valley Heritage Museum
• Montieth House Museum – see Montieth House
• Museum of Natural History at the University of Oregon – University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
• Old College Hall
• Oregon History Center – runs the Log Cabin Museum and the Burrows House
• Scio Depot Museum – see Scio Historical Depot Museum
• Scio Historical Museum – see Scio Historical Depot Museum
• Telephone Pioneers Museum – see Qwest Pioneer Telephone Museum
• Tillamook Naval Museum – see Tillamook Naval Air Station
• UO Natural History Museum – University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History
• Wasco County Historical Museum – part of the Columbia Gorge Discovery Center
• Yamhill Museum — see Yamhill County Historical Society Museum