Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a non-profit museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located just north of the Sunset Highway on the northern edge of Hillsboro, the earth science museum is in the Portland metropolitan area. Opened in 1997, the museum's collections date to the 1930s with the museum housed in a home built to display the rock and mineral collections of the museum founders. The ranch-style home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the first of its kind listed in Oregon. In 2015 the museum became a Smithsonian Affiliate museum.
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Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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Richard and Helen Rice House
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Angela Piller
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2006-11-29
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Rows of rock specimens in a variety of colors, glowing on a black background
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Rows of rock specimens in display case, labelled
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Shovel and pick crossed, making an x shape
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Brown one-story modern flagstone building, parking lot in front and fir trees behind it.
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William F. Wayman
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1952
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Logo of the museum
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Front of the home in 2010
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Specimens in the Northwest Gallery
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The Rainbow Gallery
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vertical
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Aurore Giguet
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1996
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Collections at the museum
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Rainbow Gallery at Rice NW Museum - Hillsboro, Oregon.JPG
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Collections - Rice NW Museum.JPG
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200
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Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
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Earth sciences
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approx. 25,000
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The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a non-profit museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located just north of the Sunset Highway on the northern edge of Hillsboro, the earth science museum is in the Portland metropolitan area. Opened in 1997, the museum's collections date to the 1930s with the museum housed in a home built to display the rock and mineral collections of the museum founders. The ranch-style home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the first of its kind listed in Oregon. In 2015 the museum became a Smithsonian Affiliate museum. The museum sits on 23 wooded acres (9.3 ha), with the main building containing 7,500 square feet (700 m2) of space. Collections include petrified wood, various fossils, fluorescent minerals, meteorites, zeolites, and a variety of other minerals. With more than 20,000 specimens, the museum is the largest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. The facility has around 25,000 visitors each year.
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