Gallery: Corvallis Museum project
Irene Zenev, executive director of the Benton County Historical Society & Museum, and freelance object conservator Tom Fuller discuss the Jim the Fix'r sign that used to hang in downtown Corvallis June of 2016. The sign inspired then-OSU teacher and novelist Bernard Malamud to name his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Fixer." Fuller is restoring the sign in the museum's taxidermy room ... hence the moose.
Contract conservator Tom Fuller measures Bruce the Moose, the longtime star of the Horner Collection, at the Benton County Historical Society's collections storage facility in Philomath in April of 2017. Bruce has been fully restored for his move to the society's new museum in downtown Corvallis. Construction on the $9.5 million project is set to start in June.
Irene Zenev, executive director of the Benton County Historical Society & Museum, holds her favorite Bruce the Moose yard sign in April of 2017.
Crews work to sort and stage the structural steel beams that will be part of the frame for the new Benton County Historical Society museum on Southwest Second Street in Corvallis.
An airy, two-story lobby is one of the design features of the new museum as seen in a tour of the building in October of 2019.
Joan Tanselli, left, and Lori Meihoff, center, chat with Wendy Beck-Nichols during a sneak preview of The Corvallis Museum on Sunday Oct. 20, 2019.
Visitors arrive for a sneak preview of the Benton County Historical Society's new museum in downtown Corvallis on Sunday Oct. 20, 2019.
Bruce has become the mascot for the Benton County Historical Society's Corvallis museum project. The stuffed moose's image adorns merchandise and advertising materials April 2017.
The three European hornbeam trees in front of the site of the new Benton County Historical Society Museum must be removed because of failing health and the sidewalk infrastructure requirements the project will require.
The three trees on Southwest Second Street have been tagged in December of 2017 with a notice from the city regarding why they must be removed.
Jane Woodcock Corcoran tosses out the first shovelful of dirt Thursday at a groundbreaking for the new Benton County Historical Society museum in downtown Corvallis.
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Sally McBride receives a yard sign in support of the new Benton County Historical Society museum from Doug Collins at a groundbreaking for the museum Thursday June 8, 2017. At the ground breaking officials said that the new facility could open by late 2018.
Workers start demolition of the Copeland building Wednesday morning Sept. 21, 2005, precisely maneuvering the large machinery to take the building apart in a controlled manner. The demolition of the 79-year-old building, which had been opposed by some local preservationists, is expected to take about two weeks. Meanwhile, the Benton County Historical Society will work on raising $8.5 million to finance and endow a new museum on the site and refurbish its existing museum in Philomath. About $3.6 million has been raised so far.
Conservator Tom Fuller, top, with assistance from Gallagher and Tolonen, installs the antlers on Bruce the Moose as he takes his place of honor in the lobby of the new Corvallis Museum July 15, 2020.
Chad Goodman with Suddath Relocation Systems nudges Bruce the Moose over the threshold as he moves into his new home at the Corvallis Museum on Wednesday morning, July 15, 2020.
Benton County Historical Society collections manager Mary Gallagher, right, and exhibitions curator Mark Tolonen watch as items from the society's storage facility in Philomath are loaded onto trucks in July for the move to the new location in Corvallis. The downtown museum makes its debut Friday.
James Lutz, the museum project superintendent, looks at 3-D computerized plans for the structural steel frame of the new building March 13, 2018.
Ironworkers unload beams from a delivery truck Tuesday morning March 13, 2018Â at the site in downtown Corvallis where the new Benton County Historical Society museum is under construction.
Workers start demolition of the Copeland building Wednesday morning Sept. 21, 2005, precisely maneuvering the large machinery to take the building apart in a controlled manner. The demolition of the 79-year-old building, which had been opposed by some local preservationists, is expected to take about two weeks. Meanwhile, the Benton County Historical Society will work on raising $8.5 million to finance and endow a new museum on the site and refurbish its existing museum in Philomath. About $3.6 million has been raised so far.
A crew from N.W. Erection Specialists, Inc. work on the new collections stroage facility at the Benton County Historical Society and Museum on Friday, June 15, 2007,
A crew from N.W. Erection Specialists, Inc. work on the new collections stroage facility at the Benton County Historical Society and Museum on Friday June 15, 2007. Gerald Davis sticks up through the roof beams as he works on Friday. Banding that will be placed and secured along the top of the building droops overhead as the crew works through the day on Friday.
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