Hanthorn Cannery Museum — Attraction in Astoria

A great place to learn about the historic Hanthorn Cannery and the local fishing industry.

The self guided tour takes you through exhibits that are in industrial freezers with videos and artifacts.

You will find exhibits on the crabbing industry, the use of gillnets to catch fish and the history of the Hanthorn Cannery, which became Bumble Bee after several mergers.

Old canning machines and work tables exhibits give you an understanding of the conditions that workers endured.

The tour will take you to four gillnet boats and a net tender that is located outside the museum.

Parking is limited on the pier and is reached by a narrow planked bridge.

The Cannery will take you back in time when fishing was the major industry in the area and will help you understand...

September 2025 - Bumble Bee Museum or also known as the Hanthorn Cannery Museum. This is on a small island in the Columbia River and requires driving on a wooden decked pier road to the parking lot (Not enough spaces, and there is an indoor lot, but it is reserved for the restaurant clients).

There is no charge to enter, and there is a 'canvas' shop where the owner makes canvas bags and more. The primary museum area is the history of the Bumble Bee Cannery and its workers. We were very disappointed in the displays as the current owners of the Bumble Bee Cannery corporation apparently do NOT give a hoot about the museum and its looks of displays. Nothing was organized, equipment scattered throughout the building, and most of it rusted and not really...

We came across this little history museum on pier 39 on the cannery and found it to be very informative about the machinery, process, and workers. However, I was disappointed the museum only had a minor reference to the many workers who were indigenous or who were immigrants from China and Japan who worked for very low wages. I had heard that there were thousands of Chinese laborers who cleaned, cooked and canned salmon starting in the mid-1870s but there's hardly anything said about this large and influential labor force in the...