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The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI, ) is a science and technology museum in Portland, Oregon, United States. It contains three auditoriums, including a large-screen theatre, planetarium, and exhibition halls with a variety of hands-on permanent exhibits focused on natural sciences, industry, and technology. Transient exhibits span a wider range of disciplines. ==History== Beginning in 1903, odd artifacts were displayed in hallways and alcoves in Portland City Hall arranged by Colonel L. L. Hawkins. When the collection was evicted in 1936, about 12,000 artifacts were stored throughout the city. On November 5, 1944, the Oregon Museum Foundation was founded with the mission of establishing an Oregon Museum of History, Science, and Industry. It displayed its first collection of natural history objects at the Portland Hotel. Subsequent small exhibits occurred around town to generate interest and donations. In 1949, a house at 908 NE Hassalo was donated to establish the museum. Within a year, the Pacific Northwest's first public planetarium opened in a dome on the front lawn.〔 By 1955, OMSI's annual attendance had grown to 25,000. The need for expansion led to volunteers building a new site at Washington Park, completing the original goal of a hands-on museum. (That building is now occupied by the Portland Children's Museum.) This opened to the public on August 3, 1958,〔〔"Opening of Science and Industry Museum Draws 4,000". ''The Sunday Oregonian'', August 4, 1958, p. 10.〕 following a formal dedication by the governor on June 7.〔"Years’ Dream Comes True: Holmes Dedicates Science Museum". ''The Sunday Oregonian'', June 8, 1958, p. 16.〕 A planetarium was again included.〔 The new building at the southwest corner of what was then Hoyt Park〔 (now part of Washington Park) was located adjacent to the then-new site of the Portland Zoo (now the Oregon Zoo), which began a one-year phased move in the same month as the new OMSI opened.〔"Many See Zoo, Train". ''The Oregonian'', June 9, 1958, p. 15.〕 The two attractions remained neighbors, sharing a parking lot, until 1992. The planetarium at the Washington Park site was originally a 90-seat〔"Space Film At OMSI". ''The Oregonian'', June 13, 1958, p. 35.〕 facility housed in a "temporary" dome, but in 1967 it was replaced by a larger, 142-seat facility in a distinctive dodecahedron (12-sided) building equipped with a new projector.〔"New OMSI Planetarium Offers Story Of Stars". ''The Oregonian'', December 15, 1967, p. 41.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Oregon Museum of Science and Industry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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