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1/22 through 11/15/2025

Gresham in the 60s and 70s

This exhibit explores business, politics, and culture in Gresham at a time of historic change. Incorporating objects, photos, documents, and oral history accounts, this exhibit sheds light on a little-studied era.

    1/22 through 11/15/2025

    Putting Gresham on the Map

    This exhibit features maps from our historic collections. Learn more about what different types of maps can tell you about the world around us and why cartography remains important in the age of satellites and GPS.

    Online Exhibits

    Black and white photo of a group of children posed outside a one-room schoolhouse with a bell tower.

    Beyond Main Street

    Explore the many communities that make up modern Gresham in this interactive exhibit. See each community's historic boundaries and significant locations mapped over modern features, with accompanying text and photos.

    Explore Beyond Main Street

    Looking Out

    A Photographic Journey Through the Gresham Outlook at the End of the 20th Century

    What is Gresham to you?  Thanks to the historic archives of editions of the Outlook and a generous donation of photographic negatives from Outlook staff, we explore Gresham's changing identity in the era of the new millennium. 

    Explore Looking Out

    Traveling Exhibits

    Rockwood Stories

    Consisting of 14 interpretive panels with text and historic photos, this exhibit explores the history of the Rockwood community from time immemorial through the present day.


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    Research & Collections

    What's your history mystery? Search for the answer in our archives! Resources include over 70 years of the Gresham Outlook (our local newspaper) as well as thousands of historic documents and photos. You can also browse a portion of our collection online. 

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    Learn what's going on behind the scenes at the museum on the GHS blog. Volunteers and staff compile their research and stories from the archives with historic photos. 

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