Museum · Central Eastside
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI)
1945 SE Water Ave, Portland 97214
Portland's science center on the east bank of the Willamette, in a former power plant whose turbine hall still anchors the building. Hands-on labs, a planetarium and a retired Navy submarine moored outside draw families all year. Large traveling exhibitions rotate through the featured hall.
Permanent exhibitions
- USS Blueback, the last non-nuclear submarine of the U.S. Navy
- Kendall Planetarium
- Turbine Hall and Curium, engineering and design
- The Nancy Stueber Natural Sciences Hall, with Climate of Change
- Science Playground for young children
- Chemistry, physics, paleontology and life science labs
