This is a collection of posts featuring the latest news and announcements from the Rice Northwest Rock and Mineral Museum.
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals will be opening late at 12:00pm tomorrow, October 12th, for Celebrando Arte y Cultura (Celebrate Arts and Culture) event set up. Come celebrate Art and Culture with us in Hillsboro, Or. The event is free and includes admission into the museum. We will be joined by Bach to …
Join us on October 3, 2019 as we present famed gemcutter Scott Sucher, a gemcutter with a unique passion for creating replicas of famous diamonds. He has been given special access to diamonds from the vaults of major museums around the world, most notably the Smithsonian Institution to study the Hope Diamond. Access to these stones allowed …
Noted gemcutter Scott Sucher to speak on the history of the Hope Diamond Read More »
Don’t miss out – our exhibit of the worldwide collection of fine minerals owned by Gail and Jim Spann will be leaving in a few short months. Thousands of people have already been wowed by this exhibit, but if you haven’t seen the it yet you should make plans soon. This spectacular display of world-class …
Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is closed Monday, September 2, 2019, in observance of Labor Day. The museum will open again on Wednesday, September 4, at 1:00 PM. We hope your holiday rocks!
Members of our partner organizations can visit the Rice Museum with their membership cards during the month of September. All levels of membership from the following organizations admit up to 4 people per membership. Reciprocal Membership Partner Organizations: Oregon Zoo, Oregon Historical Society, Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, Washington County Museum, Architectural Heritage Center, Columbia River Maritime Museum, Deepwood Museum and Gardens, Clark …
Thank you all for an amazing summer! It was wonderful for all of our staff to meet so many visitors. Now it’s time to get back to school and for our staff to prepare to greet thousands of students on field trips! Rice NW Museum resumes it’s standard operating schedule beginning on Sunday, 9/1/2019. We …
The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is pleased to announce famed astronaut Story Musgrave will be speaking on October 26, 2019 regarding the importance of STEM education. The event will be held in the OMSI Planetarium. Musgrave will relate his own inspirational story, from a challenging upbringing to becoming the only person to …
Rice NW Museum Presents: An Evening with Astronaut Story Musgrave Read More »
Be sure to visit us for our upcoming Garage Sale August 30-31, 2019 and scoop up some amazing bargains by the pound. We are overrun with donated material from local rockhounds, and we are running out of storage space. This material is priced to sell! The rough lapidary material and yard rocks are at especially …
Garage Sale this Friday and Saturday – Bring Your Own Bucket Read More »
If you collected some strange rocks over the summer, bring them in Saturday, August 24 from 10:00 to 2:00 to see if you can stump the experts. We’ll have several geologists, mineralogists, and rockhounds available to identify your finds. Or, if you’ve been wondering what the heck that strange rock is that you think might …
Vendors are already hard at work preparing for the opening of SummerFest 2019 on Saturday morning, August 3. The event runs both Saturday and Sunday from 10-5, but many of the vendors get their setups going as early as possible, to get their booths and tables squared away. If you’ve never been to our SummerFest …
