Exhibits
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
First Floor Main Gallery
Uplands
- Overland Travel
- Mining
- Logging & Lumbering
- Dora
- Giants
- Alonzo Tucker
Tidewater
- Shipbuilding
- When the Rivers Were the Roads
- Bounty From the Waters
Seashore
- Rough Seas & Shores
- Bandon-by-the-Sea, “Blessed by Water, Cursed by Fire”
- Removal
- Rough Seas & Shores
- First Encounter
- Natural History of this Place
First Floor Lobby
History of the Coos County Historical Society
New Content added!
The Coos County Historical Society has been in existence for over 130 years. Learn about the creation and continuation of the society and our museum.
Also, learn more about how the museum works to preserve its collection through our digital image reproduction program and research library.
First Floor Welcome Gallery
Myrtlewood: Treasure of the Southern Oregon Coast
Leaving soon!
This exhibit features the story of Myrtlewood which grows along the Southern Oregon Coast. From its beautiful wood grain to its use as currency during the Great Depression and as a medium for producing handcrafted gifts, furniture, and works of art, Myrtlewood is a treasure to behold.
First Floor Main Gallery
Alonzo Tucker
Exhibit features a memorial to the life of Alonzo Tucker, a black man who was lynched in Coos Bay in 1902.
Click here for more information on this exhibit and CHM’s partnership with the Oregon Remembrance Project, the Alonzo Tucker Project, and the Equal Justice Initiative.
Second Floor Mezzanine Gallery
Healing Hands
Now open!
Come explore the history of medicine in Coos County. This exhibit will feature a large sampling of the various establishments, people, tools, and continuing indigenous traditional medicinal practices that contributed to the health of Southern Oregon Coast communities since the 1800s.
Click here for a link to Indigenous Medicinal Plant Names and Pronunciations related to the Healing Hands exhibit.
Special Exhibition-On Display Now
Reclaiming Our Words: Tribal Language on the South Coast
A collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of the Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, the Coquille Indian Tribe, and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians.
This exhibit focuses on Native American Language Revitalization as told by the Tribes themselves. It features the Tribal languages in and around Coos County. It gives a deeper understanding of the importance of language to Native American culture, and the history of how the languages were and are passed down. Explore and learn Native words through interactive visual and audio displays and see explanations of how local place names originated.
