Located on the northern edge of Hillsboro, the Rice NW Museum of Rocks and Minerals is an earth science museum dedicated to rocks and minerals and other earth-related topics. Opened in 1997, the museum is housed in a 7,500 square foot home built to display its fascinating collection of minerals and rocks, which dates back to the 1930s and is surrounded by 23 acres of beautiful wooded gardens and grounds. The museum’s collection boasts over 20,000 specimens and features a variety of fossils, petrified wood, meteorites, fluorescent minerals, zeolites, and other minerals. The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals museum is the largest of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.
26385 NW Groveland Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97124, Phone: 503-647-2418