page_title: Five Oaks Museum
section_title: 2012 move
hierarchical_section_title: Five Oaks Museum / History / 2012 move
caption_attribution_description: English: The exterior of the Washington County Museum, when it was located on the second floor of the Plaza Building, at Hillsboro Civic Center (immediately north of, and adjoining, the City Hall Building, also part of the Civic Center), in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon. The lettering "Washington County Museum" is visible on the building. The museum moved to this location from the Rock Creek campus of Portland Community College in 2012, but moved back to PCC in October 2017. (At the time of this photo, the museum was in the process of moving and was not open at either site.)
context_page_description: Five Oaks Museum, formerly known as the Washington County Museum, is a history museum in Washington County, Oregon, United States. It is located at the Rock Creek campus of Portland Community College, north of Beaverton, Oregon. From 2012 to 2017, its public exhibit space was located in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, before it was moved back to PCC, its pre-2012 location and where the museum's research facility had already been located.
  Opened in 1975, the museum is operated by the Washington County Historical Society with a mission of preserving the history of the area. The museum's site at PCC's Rock Creek Campus also includes a research library and is home to the original Washington County Jail built in 1853.
context_section_description: In 2012, the museum moved into a space at the Hillsboro Civic Center, in a return to downtown Hillsboro, with the first exhibits at the new location opening in November 2012. The new space covered 12,400 square feet (1,150 m²) on the second floor in the commercial portion of the center. After signing a fifteen-year lease, the museum was set to complete $1.5 million in improvements to both the new space and the former location at PCC. At the time of the opening of the Civic Center space, museum officials said a lot of work to prepare the new site for the regular exhibits remained to be undertaken, and that it was likely to be 2014 before all of the exhibits were moved from PCC to downtown Hillsboro, with the then-new space in downtown to be used mainly for temporary, special exhibits in the meantime.  One of the first of these was a traveling NASA exhibit of the Hubble Space Telescope.
  The former museum building at PCC underwent renovations in 2014–2015, and continued in use as a repository for the county archives and an historical research facility.
  After the departure of the exhibit Hubble Space Telescope: New Views of the Universe in May 2013, a new featured exhibit on the history of the development of the Silicon Forest in Washington County was installed, opening in April 2014. An exhibit exploring the history of the Bracero Program was also a featured exhibit. To coincide with the inaugural season of the Hillsboro Hops minor league baseball team, the museum opened an exhibit in June 2013 spotlighting the history of baseball in the county. 
  The museum fired director Sam Shogren in June 2014; the director in 2016 was Mark S. Harmon. The museum closed for several weeks in February 2015 to retrofit exhibit walls for seismic upgrades.
caption: Exterior of the Plaza Building at Hillsboro Civic Center, the museum's main location from 2012 to 2017
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