Oregon Jewish Museum Has A New Home And Big Dreams
b'By 2015, the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education had a problem \\u2014 the good kind of problem: It couldn\\u2019t accommodate the crowds that wanted to get into its exhibits and events. So it commissioned a study to see if it could afford a bigger building. Then director Judy Margles learned that the Museum for Contemporary Craft was closing its downtown Portland doors after 79 years.
\\u201cIt was just absolutely serendipitous, as we were completing the study in February 2016, this building landed on the market,\\u201d Margles said. \\u201cWe said, \'This building is perfect for us.\' It had exactly what we needed: a changing exhibition gallery, space for core exhibitions.\\u201d
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