Philomath Museum | Benton County Historical Society — Attraction in Philomath

I was told that everything from Horner Museum, which used to be under Gill Coliseum @ OSU. I had spent a LOT of hours there during summer school while my parents worked on teaching credentials. I was VERY disappointed to see about 1/4 of the rock exhibit under black lights, none of the stuffed animals and limited display of WW1 artifacts. Benton County Museum has a nice interpretive pottery collection some lady spent years making. I sure didn't think it was worth the $5...

Great place to do local research. The staff were very helpful finding historical documents I was looking for. The collection is well organized, so we found what we were looking for, and more, relating to my family's property in the early 1900s, in just a few hours. We found a photograph of the house my great great uncle built, and its location. Their Camperdown elms are still growing on the property, though the house was torn down years ago....

BCHS is a hidden secrete in Philomath--in plain site. Throughout the year they have rotating art & historical memorabilia shows. They took over the Horner Museum collection that was in Gill Coliseum--now in a million dollar plus facility on the Philomath property. Their new Corvallis Museum is moving right along in construction on 2nd St & will be a huge boost to Benton County. We joined last year when they were hosting their...