Velveteria

Thank you for your “George Costanza’s Paradise” review on TripAdvisor.com, this helps us … Continue

The offbeat museum, which recently moved to a bigger and better location at 2448 E Burnside St, houses close to 2,000 velvet paintings, some 340 of which are on display at any time. The pièce de résistance is a … Continue

We appreciate all the wonderful reviews you have given Velveteria on yelp.com. You have made us the #1 Top Museum in Portland, Oregon! This kind of stuff … Continue

Thank you OutTraveler.com, America’s premiere gay and lesbian travel magazine, for listing us at number 6 in your Top 10 Kitsch Destinations.


A drive-thru shaped like an oversize hot dog or a quirky museum dedicated to questionable medical devices (St. Paul, Minn.), neon art (Los Angeles) or… Continue

Thank You Travel and Leisure for listing us as one of the World’s Strangest Museums!
But many of the world’s quirky museums are projects driven by a singular vision and agenda, which is often to increase the appreciation of something very specific. At the Velveteria, a museum in the East Burnside district of Portland, Ore., that something is… Continue