Camp 6 Logging Museum, Industrial heritage museum in Point Defiance Park, Tacoma, United States.
Camp 6 Logging Museum was a forest-based institution on a 14-acre site in Point Defiance Park that displayed railroad tracks and multiple buildings filled with logging equipment. The collection featured roughly 500 tons of machinery that showed how the Pacific Northwest timber industry operated.
The museum was established in 1964 by Western Forest Industries Museum Inc and operated the site until 2010. Closure came due to lack of funding, which led to the distribution of its collections across multiple institutions in Washington, Oregon, and California.
The exhibitions demonstrate the methods and equipment of the Pacific Northwest logging industry through authentic machinery and reconstructed worker accommodations.
The site was cleaned up after the museum closed in 2010, and the property was returned to Metro Parks Tacoma in September 2012. It then served as the temporary home of the Science and Math Institute (SAMI) during the 2015–2016 school year. SAMI later moved to a building near the former Camp 6 site and the zoo, known as the ELC.
The Pacific Coast Shay Lima locomotive numbered 3346 and the Weyerhaeuser Tower Skidder were two notable machines from the exhibition. After closure, these were moved to the Roots of Motive Power Museum where they remain preserved today.
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