Jensen Arctic Museum, Arctic culture museum in Monmouth, Oregon, United States

The Paul H. Jensen Arctic Museum was a museum in Monmouth, Oregon, on the campus of Western Oregon University, focused on the culture and environment of the Arctic. It housed over 5,000 artifacts, including a 27-foot umiak of driftwood and walrus skin, an Inuit stone-and-hide home, an 11-foot sled and a sod house. A Circumpolar Room diorama showed musk ox, polar bear, wolves, Arctic fox, caribou and snowy owl.

The museum was established in 1985 by Paul Jensen, a researcher who spent considerable time in Alaska and with Inuit communities. His Arctic experiences led him to create this collection at Western Oregon State College.

The museum displays handmade tools and clothing from northern communities in the Bering Strait region. Visitors can see how these peoples crafted and used everyday items in their lives.

The museum occupied a former home on the Western Oregon University campus in Monmouth, with a Circumpolar Room whose automated narration and lighting illuminated busts of musk ox, polar bear, caribou and other Arctic animals. The 27-foot umiak given to Jensen by St. Lawrence Island residents was among the largest items on view. The collection moved to the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History in Eugene after the 2013 closure.

The museum's most striking object was a 27-foot umiak, a driftwood-framed boat covered in walrus skins, given to Paul Jensen by residents of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea; he rode it around the island during a native hunt. The collection also held an 11-foot sled and a stone, hide and whalebone Inuit house.