Stark's Vacuum Museum


Stark's Vacuum Museum, also known as Stark's Vacuum Cleaner Museum, is a vacuum cleaner museum in Portland, Oregon. It showcases more than 100 vacuums from the late-1800s to the 1960s within a x section of the Stark's Vacuums store. Admission is free. Pieces include a 1930s cardboard model, a Duntley Pneumatic that attaches to the ceiling, an Electrolux on runners, and hand-pumped vacs.
WWW starks.com/vacuum-museum

Reception

The museum has been called "quirky" and included in lists highlighting the more peculiar aspects of Portland. In 2014, CNN reported that the museum averaged around a dozen visitors per month. USA Today called the guides "highly knowledgeable".