The Willamette Heritage Center is a union between Mission Mill Museum and Marion County Historical Society weaving together multiple strands of Willamette history and heritage – from the first people of the Valley, the Kalapuya, to the missionaries, to the pioneers and the industrial innovators who dug the Salem ditch and built the Mill. The engagement with history and heritage provides cultural enrichment, public access to historical collections, and connects generations by preserving and interpreting the history of the Mid-Willamette Valley. The fourteen historic structures on site house permanent and changing exhibits, a research library and archive, a textile learning center, and rentable event spaces. The five-acre campus is also home to a café, retail shops, art galleries, cooperative artist studios, and offices for our partner organizations.
