Portland Art Museum

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Portland Art Museum entrance.

The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in the last days of 1892, making it the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, PAM became 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, a Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, permanent exhibitions of Asian Art, and an outdoor public sculpture garden. The Northwest Film Center is also a component of PAM.

The original building (known as the Belluschi building) by modernist architect 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.

Until 1994, the Portland Art Museum housed an art school, originally known as simply "The Museum Art School". In 1998 the school moved from the museum premises and became the Pacific Northwest College of Art.