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Washington County Museum is a history museum located in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1975, the museum is operated by the Washington County Historical Society with a mission of preserving the history of the area.〔(Local Historical Organizations. ) Lewis & Clark College. Retrieved on March 31, 2007.〕 The museum moved the main exhibit space to downtown Hillsboro at the Civic Center in November 2012. The prior museum space remains as a research library at Portland Community College's Rock Creek Campus and as home to the original Washington County Jail built in 1853.〔(Get Out Guide. ) OregonLive.com. Retrieved on March 31, 2007.〕 ==History== In the 1930s, local historian Albert E. Tozier donated his collection of artifacts, books, maps, and other items to the county historical society.〔Buan, Carolyn M. ''This Far-Off Sunset Land: A Pictorial History of Washington County, Oregon''. Donning Company Publishers, 1999. p. 15.〕 Beginning in 1939, the artifacts were displayed at Hillsboro's Carnegie Library.〔 In 1956, the Washington County Historical Society was incorporated.〔(Our History. ) Washington County Museum. Retrieved on February 29, 2008.〕 In 1962, the society looked at using Shute Park as a possible home for their museum, which was not built at that time or at that location. However, the society temporarily moved their collections to the park's pavilion that year. Then in 1975 the county decided to start a formal history museum.〔 From 1975 to 1987, Washington County owned and operated the museum.〔Washington County Museum may charge admission. ''The Oregonian'', August 6, 1990.〕 During that time the museum was in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, at the Heidel Home. In 1982 a new museum was built at the Portland Community College campus at Rock Creek, and it opened in January 1983.〔 Then in September 1987 the Washington County Historical Society took over operations at the museum.〔 In 2007, the museum began a $1.7 million expansion of the facility to more than double the size of the museum.〔Gorman, Kathleen. (A bigger commitment to history. ) ''The Oregonian'', September 28, 2007.〕 The museums annual fundraiser featured Oregon State Beavers basketball coach Craig Robinson as the master of ceremonies in 2009 and raised around $90,000 for the museum. The museum moved into a space at the Hillsboro Civic Center in a return to downtown Hillsboro, opening in November 2012 . The new space covers on the second floor in the commercial portion of the center.〔 After signing a fifteen-year lease, the museum was set to complete $1.5 million in improvements to both the new space, as well as the former location at PCC.〔 The former museum building at PCC underwent renovations in 2015 and remains a repository for the county archives and an historical research facility.〔 After securing a traveling NASA exhibit of the Hubble Space Telescope, the museum opened the new exhibit space in November 2012. Renovations of the former exhibit space at Rock Creek and additional improvements at the Civic Center are planned to be completed at a later time.〔 After the departure of the exhibit Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe in May 2013, a new featured exhibit on the history of the development of the Silicon Forest in Washington County was installed, opening in April 2014. An exhibit exploring the history of the Bracero Program is also a featured exhibit. To coincide with the inaugural season of the Hillsboro Hops minor league baseball team, the museum opened an exhibit in June 2013 spotlighting the history of baseball in the county. The museum fired director Sam Shogren in June 2014. It closed for several weeks in February 2015 to retrofit exhibit walls for seismic upgrades. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Washington County Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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