The Museum of Natural and Cultural History

05/30/2026

Checking in our Native Plant Courtyard! Spring blooms are finishing up and early summer flowers are beginning in earnest.

05/22/2026

The exhibit America at 250: Before, Between, Beyond explores the diverse histories represented in the museum's collections. This ink drawing on seal skin by Yupik artist Florence Napaaq Malewotkuk captures scenes from her daily life in 1943.

05/21/2026

ATTENTION ARCHAEOLOGISTS! We're hiring a Director of our Archaeological Research Division! Apply today.

The museum has been a major force in the archaeological research of Oregon since the early 1930s, and that legacy continues to evolve and grow.

Over the last 40 years the museum has focused on aiding federal, state, and local agencies, private engineering firms, and utility companies in meeting their obligations to identify, protect, and manage cultural resources affected by project development.

The museum's research staff conducts field inventory surveys and site assessments to evaluate National Register status. We provide guidance regarding the protection and management of cultural resources, including data recovery excavations, laboratory analysis, and descriptive reporting. The museum is also dedicated to synthetic interpretation of research results and has a considerable record of publications, professional papers, and presentation of research results in museum exhibitions. Learn more and apply:

https://careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/536599/director-of-archaeological-research-division

05/20/2026

The museum has been a hive of activity preparing for our newest exhibit! Save the date: The Buzz About Bees opens Friday, July 10, and promises to be as sweet as honey.

Come discover the vast variety of Oregon’s bees and learn about bee behavior with up-close photographs and hands-on activities.

05/15/2026

We raised $19500 from 84 gifts during yesterday's ... and we couldn't have done it without you! Thank you for your support of the museum as we strive to make education accessible for all Oregonians and help University of Oregon students meet their career-readiness goals. 🦆🐘

05/14/2026

Thanks to your generosity, we've met ALL CHALLENGE GIFTS put together by the Museum Advisory Council! Our work's not done, though! We're sending students to public libraries all across Oregon. Give now to keep the momentum going: https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/amb/skipp

05/14/2026

Give today to support our summer traveling education program! We've met TWO challenge gifts already and we're just a few gifts away from unlocking the third!

"We’re about an hour from the border to Idaho—we are so far from everybody and we are just starved for things like this. We have so many different age-level kids—2-year-olds to 12-year-olds—and [museum education] is a leveled education that can appeal to every learner. It’s amazing.”

—Missy Grammon, youth services coordinator for the Baker County Library District .

https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/amb/skipp

05/13/2026

has begun! This year, we're raising money to fund a team of University of Oregon student educators as they bring museum education all across Oregon.

Check out the video and donate here: https://ducksgive.uoregon.edu/giving-day/112779/department/112786

05/12/2026

"The study is one example of how​ the museum​ and ​its field schools​ are furthering the field of archaeology, McDonough said. Museums like the UO’s steward objects, fossils and other archaeological materials that researchers and others uncovered before there were means for studying them. These objects hold vital clues to the past, but only recently has technology advanced enough to probe the secrets they hold."

Artifacts from the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History shed light on humans who lived long ago