Five stars all the way for the Pendleton Historical Museum! The displays are wonderful to look at and the people who volunteer there go out of their way to help you if you ask about specific things you want to know about. I wasn't able to see this place the first time I came to Pendleton after it was built in 1997 because we only spent one day here and it was a weekday. The museum is only open on the weekends. The next time I came to town I made sure to be here by a Sunday just so that I could come to the museum and I was extremely disappointed when I found out they were only open through October so I wasn't able to see it in 2007 either. When I came back in 2008 it was August and I had more time to spend in town so I went to the museum two or three different times. One thing that makes it fun for me is that it is housed in the old Bathhouse where my brother and I used to go when we wanted to swim in the town pool, a dammed-up section of Fall Creek, in the summers during visits to my grandparents. We would go in the front, pay our 10 cents, change out of our clothes which we were probably wearing over our swimsuits, put the clothes in a locker and go out the door on the Falls Creek side to the town swimming area which had steps leading down to the water, a long slide and a diving board. The swimming area closed in the seventies or eighties due to contamination but it looks like it has gotten cleaned up quite a bit since then. I'm glad the old building wasn't torn down and was turned into the Historical Museum instead. I guarantee you won't see everything in one visit because there are so many items there. Many of them have been donated to the museum or the Historical Society while others are on loan. Probably my favorite is all the old pictures, among which I'm always able to pick out a few relatives and ancestors and old family friends. This is the town that my mother grew up in and when I did genealogy research I discovered my mother's side of the family went back four or five generations to the early 1800's. That made looking through the museum and the local cemeteries even more interesting. Among their collections they have old appliances, a player piano with a dozen or so piano rolls, vintage clothing that belonged to various residents, magazines, newspapers, a complete collection of all the yearbooks from the only High School in town starting in 1916 or so and enough extras they're able to sell some to people for $25 each. There are postcards for sale with sketches of vintage buildings, some books on local history you can buy, and a donation jar if you want to contribute to help keep the museum running. If you get into Pendleton on a weekend from April through October be sure to stop in and walk around! read more