Seasonal & Holidays
Visit Santaland And Meet St. Nick This Week At Historical Society
For several days leading up to Christmas, kids and families will get to meet Santa Claus for free at the Oregon Historical Society.

PORTLAND, OR - From The Oregon Historical Society: Santa Claus will be landing his sleigh in Santaland this month at the Oregon Historical Society!
All are welcome to visit Santa Claus from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Dec. 9, 10, 16, 17, and 23. Admission to Santaland to see Santa is free, and visitors are invited to take their own photos with St. Nick.
Items from Meier & Frank's popular Santaland display will be on view at the Oregon Historical Society through December. The display, donated to OHS following the closure of Macy's downtown store this past year, includes Santa's chair, Rudolph, animatronic elves, and a decorated Christmas tree!
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As a special holiday gift from the Oregon Historical Society, admission to the museum will also be discounted to $5 for the month of December. Youth (18 and under) will be admitted for free.
A visit to one of the Oregon Historical Society's permanent exhibitions is the perfect indoor outing over Winter Break!
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From the award-winning early Oregon history exhibition Oregon My Oregon to the museum's newest kid-created permanent exhibit, History Hub, there is plenty to explore downtown! Multnomah County residents receive free admission every day to the Oregon Historical Society.
About the Oregon Historical Society
For more than a century, the Oregon Historical Society has served as the state's collective memory, preserving a vast collection of artifacts, photographs, maps, manuscript materials, books, films, and oral histories. Our research library, museum, digital platforms & website (www.ohs.org), educational programming, and historical journal make Oregon's history open and accessible to all. We exist because history is powerful, and because a history as deep and rich as Oregon's cannot be contained within a single story or point of view.
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