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The Museum of the City—a virtual museum of the city—is about the world’s cities – past, present, and future. It is about the design of cities and the people who live in them. Its exhibits present the story of cities to visitors of all ages around the world. The virtual museum is a collaborative project of Portland State University and the Museum of the City, Inc., an Oregon nonprofit corporation.

Like museums everywhere, the Museum of the City is a forum for the exchange of knowledge, ideas, and informed opinions between specialists and the public. Unlike most museums, the Museum of the City is a virtual space—a digital museum with electronic galleries—to which citizens, students, scholars, curators, and professionals in the study, planning, and design of cities—and all of the elements that comprise cities—are invited to submit their own exhibits.

To visit the Museum of the City’s galleries of exhibits, please enter through the Exhibit Galleries’ door. If you wish to offer your own thoughts about an exhibit, please enter the Public Forum. We encourage you to consider submitting your own exhibit(s) and invite you to use the Exhibit Builder Tool, available through the User Help door.

Thank you for visiting the Museum of the City. We look forward to your visits, we hope you will contribute your own work (and your responses to the work of other contributors), and we ask for your support.

Chet Orloff

President and Director, Museum of the City, Inc., USA