Current Visiting Exhibits:
Albert Clinton Moore Collection
August - December 31, 2024
Step back in time with the Albert Clinton and Rose Olive Moore Collection at the Heritage Museum. This collection is a treasured donation from Elizabeth Callahan and Rosemary Carlsen, granddaughters of Albert and Rose Moore.
Through the lens of Albert Moore's photography, you can view life in early twentieth-century. Moore skillfully captured tender family moments shared between himself, Rose, and their children, Ramona and Dan. As Mayor and a successful Main Street entrepreneur, Moore played a vital role in Independence history. This legacy of civic engagement extended to his daughter Ramona, who supported and contributed to the Heritage Museum during her life.
The items on display include Rose Moore’s elegant 1904 wedding dress, mercantile goods from Moore’s store, and personal effects spanning the 1900s to the 1930s. Each artifact tells a part of the Independence story, including education, economic trade, social connections, and enduring family bonds.
Immerse yourself in the genuine moments preserved within the Albert Clinton and Rose Olive Moore Collection.
Oregon's Botanical Landscape: An Opportunity to Imagine Oregon Before 1800
Sept. 24 - Nov. 30, 2024
Oregon artist Frances Stilwell (1940–) left a successful career in science to devote herself to art. Working mainly in pastels, she documented Oregon’s native plants in their natural habitats. A selection of reproduced artwork created for her book, Oregon’s Botanical Landscape: An Opportunity to Imagine Oregon Before 1800, is on view in this breathtaking traveling exhibition, accompanied by Stilwell’s “grace notes” — her thoughts on the experience of creating the artwork, along with scientific information about the plants depicted. The artwork is organized into eight ecoregions (areas with similar environmental resources, such as geology, organisms, soil types). This traveling exhibition includes four reproduced artworks from each ecoregion.
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Stilwell believes there is a strong connection between a sense of place and native plant imagery. “When we see these native plants in their native environments, we are assured that we are home in Oregon.”
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The Heritage Museum is the proud host of the Independence Ghost Walk and Apparition Avenue. To learn about the event click the button.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.
- Marcus Garvey
