BAKER HERITAGE MUSEUM
"Baker Heritage Museums preserve, interpret, and share Baker County's historic objects and archives. With focus, we provide hands-on learning for all ages and maintain robust and powerful exhibits that inspire exploration of our rich cultural heritage."
In 1982, the Baker County Museum Commission established the Baker Heritage Museum (formally the Oregon Trail Regional Museum). The museum is located in the 100-year old Baker Municipal Natatorium, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Presently, the museum is a two-story interpretive collection of Baker County's history, specifically from the 1860s through 1960s. Core exhibits in the museum include Baker County industries (logging, ranching, and mining), historical Baker City, Wally Byam's Airstream experience, Chinese heritage, native and non-native wildlife, and a collection of regional Native American artifacts, including stone tools.
Currently in the central gallery - Pioneers to Pillars: The experience and legacy of Chinese communities in Baker County 1860-1960. Learn the untold stories of Chinese immigrants in Baker County. Find out what brought them here, why they stayed, and what they endured. Learn of their incredible contributions past and present.
