Bumble Bee Museum

The Museum is the oldest fish processing plant and housed in the oldest cannery building still standing on the Columbia River and includes three wooden gill-netters on permanent display. The Museum is dedicated to the preservation of Cannery History, all cannery workers, and the Fishing Industry livelihood as it was developed from 1875 to the present. Its current goals are to create an interpretive center, a Cannery Woman's Memorial Park, and scholarship funds while maintaining it's headquarter at the Hanthorn Cannery in Astoria, Oregon. Website
Collections/Exhibits
You can see historic canning equipment, experience the inside of an industrial freezer, and imagine yourself standing in one of the historic gillnet boats used to catch the fish. The museum is striving to recount the story of 130 years of community/cannery history with photos, boat displays and Bumble Bee artifacts.
​J.O. Hanthorn, one of the founders of the Columbia River Packers Association (CRPA), laid the foundation for one of the strongest seafood marketing companies in the world. This company eventually became Bumble Bee Seafoods. While much of this industry has fragmented in the last 20 years, its thriving early industrial livelihood provided jobs, food and futures for many generations of families throughout the West Coast of the United States.
​A really interesting stop, just takes 15-30 minutes to see it all & IT'S FREE.