UPDATED: Bush House Museum will reopen in September

UPDATE: The opening of Bush House Museum has been delayed until September 2022.

After being closed to the public for more than two years, Bush House Museum will reopen July 7. 

To celebrate, the museum presents Remaking the Monument: Immigrant Stories at Bush House Museum, a powerful exhibition celebrating the stories and sacred objects of immigrants who’ve come to Oregon in the house of Asahel Bush, a man who advocated for early Oregon’s exclusionary laws and the oppression of Black Oregonians, Native Americans and immigrants.

In 2019, the Oregon Black Pioneers challenged Salem Art Association and the Bush House Museum to examine the impact Bush had on early Black Oregonians, Native Americans and other people of color. Since then, SAA and Bush House have been working to celebrate and elevate the stories of those he oppressed.

The Bush House Museum is preserved to explore and interpret Salem’s Bush Family and Bush’s Pasture Park, the cultural diversity of Salem history and the development of early Oregon. The Museum is located at 600 Mision St SE and operated by the Salem Art Association on behalf of the City of Salem. Learn more at bushhousemuseum.org

This story originally ran in Press Play Salem issue 14 (Summer 2022)