In 1986, a group of community leaders began a $32M campaign to build a new state-of-the-art science center in Portland. As a longtime supporter, Portland General Electric made a milestone donation to the efforts—an 18.5-acre site that held a historic sawdust-fired power generation plant. After years of fundraising, design, and construction, the OMSI's Water Avenue location opened in 1992. And that power plant? It was reopened as the museum's Turbine Hall, where you can see one of its original turbines still sitting today. Do you remember the opening of our "new" location?
