Museum - Benton County Museum in Philomath, Oregon

This weekend, December 11-13, 2020, we are having a members-only preview of the Corvallis Museum! Free timed entry reservations are available online at https://corvallismuseum.simpletix.com/. This is only available for BCHS members. If you are not a member and would like to join, and visit the Corvallis Museum, please print this form (http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org//MembershipApp_Feb-2019_) and bring your dues payment when you visit. We can accept checks or credit card payments. Thank you. We hope to see you soon!

Christmas cookie traditions, photos, and artifacts are featured this week on our blog: http://bcmuseum.blogspot.com/2020/12/christmas-cookies.html

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Portable desks and inkwells are the featured museum artifacts in our blog this week: https://bcmuseum.blogspot.com//traveling-desks-and-inkwell

The Philomath Museum is open again! The Philomath Museum is following the Oregon Governor's Office Covid guidelines, which may change every two weeks. We are now open Wednesday through Saturday, 10am - 4:30pm, through December 17. Please come see the Soap Creek Artistans exhibition as well as the Smithsonian's "Righting a Wrong: Japanese Americans and World War II" exhibition which also features Karen Miller's beautiful kimono.

Artists participating in the Philomath Museum exhibition are Dominique Bachelet, Mimosa Beck, Sydney Burton, Dale Donovan, Dale Dreager, Debi Friedlander, John Friedlander, Mark Gillespie, Jeff Gunn, Marcella Henkels, Carol Houk, Ann Lahr, Kate McGee, Beth Rietveld, Merrill Sommers, Debby Sundbaum-Sommers, Leslie Tejada, Steve Terhune, and Emily Thomas. The annual Philomath Open Studio Tour (POST) is a unique opportunity to visit with artists in their studios, see work in process, and discuss where we find ideas and inspiration. Due to the global pandemic, the 2020 tour has been POSTponed until 2021. We will, however, have an exhibition at the Philomath Museum. Please come see our recent work and consider it a preview of great things to come.

BCHS Executive Director Irene Zenev's 2020 Annual Report is now on our website at http://www.bentoncountymuseum.org//2020_BCHS_annual_report Thank you to everyone who so generously supported our programs and projects this year!

Every year, we invite you to make a gift to the Benton County Historical Society's Operations Appeal. You can make your online gift today in honor of #GivingTuesday Your gift to the Society helps operate two museums in Benton County: the Philomath Museum and the Corvallis Museum. If you would like to make an additional give to the Society's Endowment Fund, before December 31, 2020, you gift will be matched. Please help us grow our endowment fund! Thank you for your support. https://benton-county-historical-society.networkforgood.com/

Featured artifacts from our museum collection: http://bcmuseum.blogspot.com//featured-artifact-darning-eg

A video introduction to our current exhibition "POSTponed" is on YouTube at https://youtu.be/MQQci1REkIs The Philomath Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10am-4:30pm.

OSU librarian Ida Kidder features prominently in "Where's Waldo? A History of Waldo Hall and the Changing Role of Women at Oregon State". This statue of Kidder will be in the first exhibitions when the Corvallis Museum opens. http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu//wal/haunted/haunted/

Political campaign buttons in our museum collection are featured in our blog this week: http://bcmuseum.blogspot.com//political-campaign-button-hi

The "Black in Oregon: 1840-1870" will be at the Philomath Museum in January and February 2021. We'll also feature a few historical artifacts from the BCHS collections.

In January and February 2021 we will partner with the City of Philomath, Oregon to bring the exhibition "Black in Oregon 1840-1870" to the Philomath Museum from the Oregon Black Pioneers. "Oregon's Black Pioneers" is also an OPB Oregon Experience show: https://www.pbs.org/video/oregons-black-pioneers-zxzlwp/

Allied Works Architecture featured the Corvallis Museum this morning on Twitter:

On Wednesday, October 21, USS Constitution turns 223 and together with the Ship's crew, we are throwing a free virtual birthday celebration you won't want to mi...ss! Join us live on Facebook on October 21 at 12:30 PM ET as we relive major moments in "Old Ironsides" history, fire an honorary 21-gun salute, and announce an unforgettable birthday gift. See more

The lives of Oregon's first Black residents were intimately connected with Oregon's Indigenous Peoples. Although marginalized, Black and Native Oregonians built... community together, and often families as well. Martha Jane Carson married Narcisse Lavadour (Walla Walla) in 1868, and raised 10 children between 1870-1890 while living on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Their story is one of dozens of similar stories found in our records. OBP celebrates the thriving cultural traditions of our Native neighbors past and present. Happy #IndigenousPeoplesDay!

A history of Benton County's Sulphur Springs is the topic of our blog this week. http://bcmuseum.blogspot.com//sulpher-springs-of-benton-co

Sharon Rackham King won the beautiful Jan Maitland necklace in our online auction. This is a custom design, based on the Allied Works Architecture design of the Corvallis Museum building. Thank you, Sharon, for your support of BCHS!

Having the Janitorial Cleaning Service here today for a deep cleaning is a very satisfying mile stone. Progress at the CorvallisMuseum!

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BCHS supporters, members, volunteers: you're all amazing! Our online auction fundraiser has raised over $8,000, with a goal of $10,000. The auction closes at 6am tomorrow. Please share the link, and as always, THANK YOU! Mobile link: https://m.biddingforgood.com/auctions/341695962