Seasonal Rounds
Community Gallery, July – September 2021
Seasonal rounds created by Oregon State University students illustrate how all tribal lifeways are inherently connected to their land.
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Stories of place through the voices of its people.
Five Oaks Museum brings Washington County’s many histories to life through a wide range of exhibits that help our community learn and grow together. Through our Guest Curator program, we present an art exhibition each summer and a history & culture exhibition each fall. Our guest curated exhibitions offer a platform for people to uplift their own community’s stories.
Browse our current and past exhibitions below.
Featured Exhibition
Untouchable Artifacts
Our 2021 art exhibition is a love letter to the art, practice, and importance of indigenous storytelling on Turtle Island.
In the exhibition, eleven indigenous artists who hold intersectional identities and carry ancestral knowledge continue the tradition of storytelling. Each artist has recorded themselves reading their story.
Ongoing Exhibitions
This IS Kalapuyan Land
An exhibition available online in perpetuity that questions how Native history is told, shares Tualatin Kalapuyan history from a contemporary Kalapuyan perspective, and features artworks by Indigenous descendants who are contributing to cultural survivance today.
DISplace
Our 202o history & culture exhibition shines light on the widely unknown connection between Hawaiʻi, the Pacific Northwest, and the communities that continue to flow between these two regions.
As far back as 1787, people coming from and through the Hawaiian Islands to what’s currently considered the Pacific Northwest have made important contributions to culture and industry throughout the region.
Community Gallery
The Community Gallery highlights exciting, ongoing work of students and educators in interpreting history, culture, and art.
What Makes a Place?
Community Gallery, May-June 2021
In Winter 2021, Portland State University students created imaginative graphic design approaches to interpreting the Five Oaks Historic Site.
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Museum at (Our Place) is an opportunity to bring an outdoor mini-exhibition to your school or neighborhood as a set of yard signs and learning resources.
M(OP) This IS Kalapuyan Land
Bring contemporary Indigenous art to your students or neighborhood while making a statement of land acknowledgement that this IS Kalapuyan land.
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Past Exhibitions
Gender Euphoria: Contemporary Art Beyond the Binary
Our 2020 art exhibition features artworks by PNW trans and gender non-conforming artists who explore feelings of delight, bliss, and elation in genderqueerness.
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AgriCulture
September 2018 – June 2019
The stories in this exhibition tell about performing agricultural labor in the Tualatin Valley, in different times, with different crops, and under different social and political circumstances.
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Timber in the Tualatin Valley
2016 – 2020
With many original artifacts on loan from local collector Bill Racine, this display aims to teach visitors about the history of logging in Washington County, from the first pioneers to railroading to gas powered engines.
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