Portland Art Museum, Art museum in Portland, Oregon, US

The Portland Art Museum is an art museum in Portland, Oregon, occupying two buildings connected by an underground gallery. The collection spans over 42,000 works from different periods and includes European paintings, photography, and contemporary art.

The Portland Art Association was incorporated in 1892 by seven business and cultural leaders, when the city had about 50,000 residents. Henry Corbett gave $10,000 for the first collection, one hundred plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures chosen by Winslow B. Ayer and his wife in Europe, shown at the Multnomah County Library. The museum moved to its own building at SW 5th and Taylor by the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, and opened at SW Park Avenue and Jefferson Street on November 18, 1932, in a building by Pietro Belluschi.

The museum's name comes from the Portland Art Association, incorporated in 1892 by seven of the city's business and cultural leaders. Its Corbett Collection began with one hundred plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculptures, chosen by Winslow B. Ayer and his wife in Europe with advice from curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, with extended hours on Thursday and Friday until 8 PM. Guided tours are available in multiple languages to help visitors explore the collections.

The Northwest Film Center is a component of the Portland Art Museum, not a separate venue: it runs the museum's film programming, including screenings in the Whitsell Auditorium. The museum's film work thus sits inside an institution founded in 1892, the oldest art museum on the US West Coast.