Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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.
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Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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.
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Brown one-story modern flagstone building, parking lot in front and fir trees behind it.
Rows of rock specimens in a variety of colors, glowing on a black background
Rows of rock specimens in display case, labelled
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William F. Wayman
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Front of the home in 2010
Logo of the museum
Specimens in the Northwest Gallery
The Rainbow Gallery
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Leslie Moclock
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Collections at the museum
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approx. 25,000
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Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals
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Richard and Helen Rice House
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