Tillamook County Pioneer Museum, Tillamook

A great regional museum featuring the history of the North Oregon Coast. The museum has three floors featuring natural history, Native American, military, transportation, and the pioneer life. The second floor on natural history feature dioramas of North American wildlife including birds, grizzly bears, deer and many other animals A large collection of seashells are also on this floor. A Pioneer cabin and barn, a tree stump house and local history of the Coastal Native Americans are some of the highlights on the first floor. The basement has a stage coach, a cedar canoe from the local Tillamook tribe, a harness shop from the early 1900's and a fire lookout station. Located in the old county courthouse on Second Street near the junction of Highway 6 and Highway 101 in Tillamook. A great museum to learn about the local coastal tribes and the Pioneer way of life with a number of interesting collections and exhibits on a wide range of subjects.

Historical museums in small cities and small towns seem to often have a whole lot more of one type of exhibit (e.g. farm tools) than the other types. This is a nice museum that seemed to balance all the areas. They have Basement: old farm equipment, cars, fire fighting, logging, kitchen gadgets, musical instruments, and more Main floor: pioneer settlers and native people, and military 2nd floor: mostly taxidermy birds and animals, rocks & minerals, Victorian bedroom, and Abe Lincoln Their exhibit labels were short, but nearly everything had one. In January 2023 it was $5 seniors, $7 adults, and they had a discount for kids but I didn’t notice what it was.