[OR_Archaeology] OMNCH to re-open next week!

[Susan White]

OMNCH TO RE-OPEN NEXT WEEK

The Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History has been closed for six weeks as the public space went under renovation. On Aug. 4 the public space reopens with "PaleoLab: Oregon's Past Revealed -- Horses and Grasslands." Visitors can find out how horses evolved as grasslands expanded. PaleoLab allows a person to become a paleontologist for a day and bring fossils from the "field" to the museum.

Also on display is "Oregon- Where Past is Present: We Are Still Here" where Stephanie Wood, an anthropologist and Grand Ronde tribal member, uses detective work to identify origin and individual weavers of baskets from the museum's collections.

The museum public hours after Aug. 3 are Wednesday- Sunday, 11 a.m. - 5
p.m.  For more information, contact 541.346.1671