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Tuesday, 09 February 2016 10:54

Portland’s Museum of Contemporary Craft to Close

Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft. Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft. Flickr

Portland's Museum of Contemporary Craft,one of the nation's oldest institutions dedicated to craft, is being shut down.

The Pacific Northwest College of Art, which took over the museum in 2009, announced Wednesday that it was forming a Center for Contemporary Art & Culture. The craft museum's permanent collection, which holds about 1,200 items, and its programming will be merged into the center, according to a press release. The museum store will close.

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