Portland Museum

Today at 2PM! Come see some puppetry!

Coming this July to the Portland Museum’s Lighthouse Education Center: it’s the Squallis Puppeteers Yellow Carpet Series!! Each of these three amazing shows will also be followed by a finger-puppet making workshop, and we’ll have the Portland Museum open for curious visitors! Sign up for one or all of these shows today on our websıte! See you this Sunday!!

⚓ BIG NEWS FROM AHOY! ⚓

After years of dreaming, planning, fundraising, design, and community collaboration, AHOY Children’s Museum is finally under construction!

We are excited to officially announce our partnership with Weber Group as the design build team helping bring Louisville’s first dedicated children’s museum to life.

In just two and a half weeks, major demolition and building envelope work has already been completed across our historic campus. Watching these buildings transform from vision to reality has been incredible.

AHOY is more than a museum. It is a community created space for play, creativity, exploration, and discovery. Inspired by the adventurous spirit of City Museum in St. Louis, adventure playgrounds around the world, and the creativity of children themselves, AHOY will offer opportunities for open ended exploration, artistic expression, risk taking, problem solving, and wonder.

As construction moves forward, we will also be collaborating with international, national, regional, and local artists, designers, educators, and makers to create unique experiences throughout the museum. Stay tuned for artist announcements and upcoming RFP opportunities.

Thank you to Weber Group and the many people who have helped make this moment possible. We are grateful to Wolfgang & Hite, Architecture and Exhibition Design, whose early architectural and exhibition design work contributed to the project's development, as well as Pat Blackburn and VBN Architects, Clinton Deckard of Construction Solutions, Michael Bryant of PACE Contracting, Claude Stephens of Playcecosystem, Squallis Puppeteers, Ludicology (UK), Jo Marsh with Tŷ Pawb (UK), our staff, the AHOY Children's Museum Committee, the Portland Museum Board, the Portland community, and Plus & Greater Than (OR).

This project belongs to the community, and now we finally get to watch it rise.