Why Is A Major Portland Museum Closing And Being Absorbed Into A College?

“Mills considers everything that has happened as the result of the museum’s original 2007 move into the Pearl District from its home on Southwest Corbett. That move wasn’t just geographic; it changed the culture of the museum (which had been known as Contemporary Crafts Gallery) as it raised its visibility and quality of exhibitions. And it was far more expensive. ‘I don’t think they ever recovered,’ Mills said.”