Portland Art Museum

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The Belluschi Building of the Portland Art Museum at night. It should be possible to replace this fair use image with a freely licensed one. If you can, please do so as soon as is practical.

The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in 1892, making it the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest. When current renovations are complete, PAM will be one of the twenty-five largest art museums in the USA, at a total of 240,000 square feet (22,000 m²). The permanent collection has more than 32,000 works of art, and at least one major traveling exhibition is presented most of the time. PAM features a Center for Native American Art, a Center for Northwest Art, Permanent exhibitions of Asian Art, and an outdoor public sculpture garden.

The original building by regional modernist Pietro Belluschi was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 as reference number #74001710. In 2005 the museum expanded into the 141,000-square-foot Mark Building next door, a former Masonic temple.