Corvallis Museum — Attraction in Corvallis

Information about the exhibits in this museum is kept on these wooden cards stored in stands placed around the museum. The exhibits themselves are unlabeled. This means if you want to read about a certain artifact or exhibit, you need to first find the stand containing the wooden cards, and then sift through all the cards to find the one describing the thing you want to learn about.

This creates some bottlenecks - when we went there were 4 visitors in the entire museum - and yet we still had to wait in line to read about one of the exhibits because someone else was looking through the wooden cards. If they just put the information next to the artifacts like most museums this would never have happened.

The museum also feels very haphazard and the space is way too large for the amount of content...

Neat little museum right in downtown. The building is new and modern, the displays are a mix of contemporary art and eclectic historical stuff. But a lot of the exhibits don’t have tags or placards explaining what you’re looking at, or they’re on the other side of the room, or on wooden boards you pick up, read, and put back. You can get through the whole place in half an hour or less. Not sure...

I went to see the old Horner collection. What I saw was incomplete and seemed kinda random. It's just not all there, and what is available seems arbitrary and often lacks context. Generously I'd rate the museum 3 stars, but that extra star is mostly because I'm sentimental for the old collection at OSU. As of 2024, I'd say the Brownsville museum is vastly more...