The following are transcriptions from two 1890 entries in the Oregon State Hospital Patient Clothing Inventory ledger, now housed at the Oregon State Archives (2/10/7/7). They offer an unusually intimate view into the personal wardrobes [...]
Remnants of the past, you can still find several stone pillars used to support gates on the grounds today. There are pairs standing at the corner of Center and 24th streets (see below) and a pair at the [...]
Join us for the museum's first fundraising event at the Pentacle Theatre in Salem.
The following are excerpts from an article appearing in the Oregon Statesman on Sunday July 12, 1964. The Junior Volunteer Program was started at the Oregon State Hospital as a service program for high-school aged youths. By 1968, the program had [...]
Sunday, July 25, 2010 2:00pm See the Pentacle Theatre's production of the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and support the Oregon State Hospital Museum at the same time! Staff from the Oregon State Hospital, the [...]
May 15, 2010 10:00-4:00 Stop by our booth at this year's Annual Sheep to Shawl Festival at the Willamette Heritage Center. We'll be part of the Heritage Fair section of the event, but don't miss [...]
April was National Volunteer Month and, true to form, we're a little bit late in recognizing five Willamette University student interns who have accomplished some outstanding things in the last few months: Dakota Coleman, Chelsea Greenberg, [...]
The following announcement was published in the Oregon Statesman Newspaper on August 26, 1894. Prior to the passage of Federal laws regarding patient privacy, it was not uncommon for commitments to OSH (then the Oregon State [...]
If you’re like me, Salem isn’t exactly the first place that comes to mind when you think of beer. But even before the dawn of Oregon’s microbrew industry, beer and hops were big business in [...]
Not all of the historic items housed at the Oregon State Hospital relate directly to psychiatry and medicine. The objects preserved at the hospital also provide a wider view of our past, like the history of truck [...]