![Two people looking at books at a wooden table. One with short blonde hair wearing a red plaid button down shirt and the other in a trucker hat and a blue Hawaiian button down shirt. Books shelves, old wooden chairs and a red curtain are behind them in the Crumpacker Library.](https://portlandartmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Library_featured-1308x872.jpg)
The library & archives are currently closed. For general information, contact info@pam.org or 503-226-2811.
Crumpacker Family Library
The Anne and James F. Crumpacker Family Library is the region’s most comprehensive visual art resource open to students, researchers, docents, staff, and the public. The Library’s collection of more than 35,000 volumes originated in 1895 and includes current and historical periodicals, art archives, and resources specific to the Museum’s history and encyclopedic art collection. The Library’s comfortable reading room and irreplaceable, non-circulating collection is located on the second floor of the Mark Building.
Resources include:
- Exhibition catalogues, books, journals, and A/V relating to the Museum’s art collection and Northwest artists
- The Portland Art Museum Archive, including institutional records, PAM exhibition catalogues back to the late 1800s, and exhibition reviews, news articles, and ads, referencing the efforts of the Northwest and Portland art scene founders
- The Portland Center for the Visual Arts (PCVA) Archive
- The Archive of The Art Gym at Marylhurst University
- Northwest Artists Files
- Art Museum Collection Artists Files